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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
Skunk, sorry, but in my mind you dontinue to be a mild terrorist sympathizer, which I cannot abide. While you do post the occassional interesting tidbit of information, I nevertheless take most of your posts with a grain of salt based on your sympathies.
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No I do NOT sympathise with 'terrorists' - I merely do what so many people here (including yourself) seem to find too difficult. I stand in the other person's shoes and ask myself how I would feel if the same things were happening to me.
Tell me TL, how would you feel if:
At least one member of your family was killed by a foreign invader? Prepared to forgive?
You are banned from working and recieving state aid because you joined a political party that the invader doesn't like? Still happy?
You have no access to money (and therefore food is irregular) and your surviving kids are going hungry. Would you still feel passive without a shred of resentment and bitterness?
Questions like these need to be asked so that solutions can be found and stupid mistakes like the Iraq war are not repeated.
If standing in the other person's shoes and gaining an understanding of their viewpoint and emotions makes me a 'bad' person, then so be it.
If critically examining the motives of my country and acknowledging its faults is wrong, then so be it.
If being prepared to understand the causes of violence is wrong, then so be it.
If all of that make me a 'terrorist sympahiser' - then it's a label that I am proud of.
Maybe its easier to label someone as a 'terrorist sympathiser' rather than to undergo the painful process of critical self-examination. It's certainly easier to call people 'barbaric' because then you don't have to ask "Why"?
And the "Why?" is the question that we really want to avoid isn't it?
We don't really want to know what made a previously law-abiding town engage in such a savage act of bloodlust, do we? Because we don't want our own consciences to be disturbed by what we might have done TO them rather than FOR them. And for people to be so stirred up and so crazed, what we must have done TO them must have been pretty bad - and we wouldn't want to admit it, would we?
[ 04-01-2004, 04:25 AM: Message edited by: Skunk ]