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re: Not the same crime

gbaikie — 4/8/2004 12:38:42 AM (archived)

Frank C says: "Over and over we tell you that human bombs as a military weapon is just fine even with collateral damage as long as the bombs are intended for military or government targets. It is a nasty business for both sides."

Just for record I don't agree that using human bombs is "just fine"- though of course, using against civilians is worse.

Raoul says
"The suicide bomber decided on his own (or perhaps not if he's a child) or with very few people above him."

A person can do crazy stuff- so this is one thing.
But once you make it into a system or culture you are changing it into something completely different. I would put this in the category of having doctors use prisoners for mental experiments- or worse, or say systematic cannibalism. What you are doing is creating a social system that generates insanity. And as a leader of people, you have a particular responsiblity to avoid dehumanizing people you are leading. No matter what a leader accomplishes for his people, if he dehumanize them he can only be thought as a parasite or disease of these people.

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Europe, a Provence of Islam - phil - 4/6/2004 10:54:04 PM
- What I can't understand is this: - David F Mayer - 4/11/2004 4:59:35 PM
- re: Europe and US, a divide - Raoul - 4/7/2004 5:49:38 AM
  - Not all religions are equally good or bad. - Buck Galaxy - 4/8/2004 6:58:10 AM
  - re: Europe and US, a divide - Justin Kelly - 4/7/2004 4:37:05 PM
    - re: Europe and US, a divide - Raoul - 4/7/2004 7:21:20 PM
      - Not the same crime - FrankC - 4/7/2004 8:19:39 PM
        
        re: Not the same crime - Raoul - 4/7/2004 9:43:31 PM
        
        re: Not the same crime????????? - Buck Galaxy - 4/8/2004 6:43:31 AM
        
        re: Not the same crime! - Raoul - 4/8/2004 4:44:16 PM
        
        If I conceded.... - FrankC - 4/8/2004 3:24:25 AM
        
        Targets - Mary Anne - 4/8/2004 4:16:50 AM
        
        re: Targets - Justin Kelly - 4/8/2004 9:05:06 AM
        
        My meaning was quite straightforward: - Mary Anne - 4/8/2004 5:26:41 PM
        
        Good grief, Mary Anne. - Tom Brosz - 4/9/2004 12:43:31 AM
        
        I'm tired of the "heroic" Israelis vs. the "diabolic" Palestinians - Mary Anne - 4/9/2004 1:17:10 PM
        
        re: I'm tired of the reverse. And I hear a lot more of it. - Tom Brosz - 4/9/2004 4:25:17 PM
        
        I do remember Barak, and his efforts, with regret. - Mary Anne - 4/9/2004 5:03:22 PM
        
        re: regret. - Tom Brosz - 4/9/2004 6:25:35 PM
        
        Sharon is not an idiot. - Mary Anne - 4/9/2004 6:35:52 PM
        
        re: Sharon is not an idiot. - Buck Galaxy - 4/12/2004 7:54:39 AM
        
        Hold the Israelis responsible for what they have done since the Yom Kippur war as well. - Mary Anne - 4/12/2004 1:15:56 PM
        
        The Boston mob, and those who followed it, did not target British women and children. - Buck Galaxy - 4/12/2004 4:28:26 PM
        
        re: Oppression - Raoul - 4/8/2004 4:48:08 PM
        
        There is no amount of humiliation that justifies setting off a nail bomb in a cafeteria. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 4/9/2004 12:45:26 AM
        
        there still is humiliation and oppression and that does breed violence. - FrankC - 4/8/2004 7:25:13 PM
        
        Okay - FrankC - 4/8/2004 6:05:39 AM
        
        re: Not the same crime - gbaikie - 4/8/2004 12:38:42 AM
  - re: Europe and US, a divide - phil - 4/7/2004 2:54:34 PM

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