Most Americans are hot-blood...
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Hi all, A story comes after my previous post, In a stary night, the US troops dropped a laser-targeted bomb to a house in California US, coz the army has intelligence about a terrorist hiding in the house(actually no one can confirm whether the intelligence is accurate or not). The house-owner, who is an innocent American, have all his 17 family members, including children, womens, killed under the attack. Fortunately, the house-owner was not in the house while the attack and survived. As most Americans are hot-blood, he stood out to blame his US government, not just for himself, he think he need to stop his government to do such thing again and again, and to stop more innocent life being lost in the future. In his belief, his government are created and run by the US citizens, and the government can only act on behalf of its citizen, so the citizens should responsible for what the government did. And US citizens should regulate what their government did. He starts to make noise about his complain, he choose to post on the codeproject forum about his belief and concern, and to arouse other americans belief also, so they can together regulate their government by making their noise louder and louder... But to his surprise.... he get many negative feedbacks from non-Americans as follow, - one Canadian response that the American should tolerate what his government did to him, coz it is just a mistake, and told him that he should allow this mistake happen again and again....coz the US government is created and run by US citizens and the army are all their childrens and go to war voluntarily. - one Pakistanian told the American to forgive his government coz US has donated a huge sum of money to Pakistan after earth quake - one Sweden advise the American should not post such silly message on American website coz the CIA will find him soon... - one Japanese said that all Americans and US government did many good things to the world before, so US government are qualified to kill their citizens by mistake again and again... - some Europeans response that the American are morons, retarded or idiots.... that's all :((
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Hi all, A story comes after my previous post, In a stary night, the US troops dropped a laser-targeted bomb to a house in California US, coz the army has intelligence about a terrorist hiding in the house(actually no one can confirm whether the intelligence is accurate or not). The house-owner, who is an innocent American, have all his 17 family members, including children, womens, killed under the attack. Fortunately, the house-owner was not in the house while the attack and survived. As most Americans are hot-blood, he stood out to blame his US government, not just for himself, he think he need to stop his government to do such thing again and again, and to stop more innocent life being lost in the future. In his belief, his government are created and run by the US citizens, and the government can only act on behalf of its citizen, so the citizens should responsible for what the government did. And US citizens should regulate what their government did. He starts to make noise about his complain, he choose to post on the codeproject forum about his belief and concern, and to arouse other americans belief also, so they can together regulate their government by making their noise louder and louder... But to his surprise.... he get many negative feedbacks from non-Americans as follow, - one Canadian response that the American should tolerate what his government did to him, coz it is just a mistake, and told him that he should allow this mistake happen again and again....coz the US government is created and run by US citizens and the army are all their childrens and go to war voluntarily. - one Pakistanian told the American to forgive his government coz US has donated a huge sum of money to Pakistan after earth quake - one Sweden advise the American should not post such silly message on American website coz the CIA will find him soon... - one Japanese said that all Americans and US government did many good things to the world before, so US government are qualified to kill their citizens by mistake again and again... - some Europeans response that the American are morons, retarded or idiots.... that's all :((
Why do you persist in this moronic behavior? There's a perfectly good Soapbox forum available for this specific purpose, and no one here respects anyone too stupid to figure that out. Think of the Lounge as our living room; we also have a nice bathroom called the Soapbox. Take your crap there, not here... it's rude. "...a photo album is like Life, but flat and stuck to pages." - Shog9
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Why do you persist in this moronic behavior? There's a perfectly good Soapbox forum available for this specific purpose, and no one here respects anyone too stupid to figure that out. Think of the Lounge as our living room; we also have a nice bathroom called the Soapbox. Take your crap there, not here... it's rude. "...a photo album is like Life, but flat and stuck to pages." - Shog9
Well stated. Hopefully no one else will resopnd to him/her here. I'm on-line therefore I am. JimmyRopes
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Why do you persist in this moronic behavior? There's a perfectly good Soapbox forum available for this specific purpose, and no one here respects anyone too stupid to figure that out. Think of the Lounge as our living room; we also have a nice bathroom called the Soapbox. Take your crap there, not here... it's rude. "...a photo album is like Life, but flat and stuck to pages." - Shog9
Its just some anonymous coward poster, best ignored. Somehow I get the feeling he's not from the US as his profile suggests, juding by his poor English.
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Its just some anonymous coward poster, best ignored. Somehow I get the feeling he's not from the US as his profile suggests, juding by his poor English.
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Hi all, A story comes after my previous post, In a stary night, the US troops dropped a laser-targeted bomb to a house in California US, coz the army has intelligence about a terrorist hiding in the house(actually no one can confirm whether the intelligence is accurate or not). The house-owner, who is an innocent American, have all his 17 family members, including children, womens, killed under the attack. Fortunately, the house-owner was not in the house while the attack and survived. As most Americans are hot-blood, he stood out to blame his US government, not just for himself, he think he need to stop his government to do such thing again and again, and to stop more innocent life being lost in the future. In his belief, his government are created and run by the US citizens, and the government can only act on behalf of its citizen, so the citizens should responsible for what the government did. And US citizens should regulate what their government did. He starts to make noise about his complain, he choose to post on the codeproject forum about his belief and concern, and to arouse other americans belief also, so they can together regulate their government by making their noise louder and louder... But to his surprise.... he get many negative feedbacks from non-Americans as follow, - one Canadian response that the American should tolerate what his government did to him, coz it is just a mistake, and told him that he should allow this mistake happen again and again....coz the US government is created and run by US citizens and the army are all their childrens and go to war voluntarily. - one Pakistanian told the American to forgive his government coz US has donated a huge sum of money to Pakistan after earth quake - one Sweden advise the American should not post such silly message on American website coz the CIA will find him soon... - one Japanese said that all Americans and US government did many good things to the world before, so US government are qualified to kill their citizens by mistake again and again... - some Europeans response that the American are morons, retarded or idiots.... that's all :((
You know why your post is hard for us? It really is to. Because we are Americans and we sit here behind our monitors and we read of 17 dead and we feel grief. Really and truly I do. I'm grieved by your anger and I'm grieved that an accident (and yes I do pray to my God with sincere hope it was an accident) like this could happen. I'm worried though (like many Americans) that maybe it wasn't an accident. Maybe our troops maliciously carried out a hostile act against innocent people. Maybe this story is being misreported and this didn't happen at all they way you describe. Maybe it didn't happen at all. None of those things changes the fact that as Americans we are learning some things about our elected officials we are not proud of.
You show up here on this public message board and rub an example of our fears in our noses and it worries us. Why? Because we want America to be great. We want American soldiers to deliver food, supplies, love and affection to war ravaged victims. We want to think we are a great land filled with unity and love for victims all over the world. What you've posted here though is evidence (if true) that we have some real issues and problems. That our elected officials are not making the best decisions and our not preserving a global standard we have hoped was kept since the first and second world war.
You have brought a very difficult matter to life for us that we quietly read about and hope isn't true. Don't judge us so hard. It's a very difficult thing to come to grips with. Separating the truth from the lies and media spin is difficult but we are hearing so much of this it's getting hard to not believe it in many ways. Be patient with us. It's not that we do not love or do not care it's that we are trying very hard in our own minds to work this out and understand it. The news alone (true or not) isn't good news and it's not something we are proud of. If it is true it's something we as a Americans will want to see fixed. It's wrong. But you have to be patient with us for many of us it's been a very slow realization that our elected officials are not the men we hoped and trusted they were. That's a very hard thing to come to grips with. It requires a lot of time and patience. I love this land and I respect the men and women who run it but I do think it's time for some tough questions to be asked of them and I believe it's time to get tough answers. My fear is that we won't though and that's a cause for concern.
- Rex
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Hi all, A story comes after my previous post, In a stary night, the US troops dropped a laser-targeted bomb to a house in California US, coz the army has intelligence about a terrorist hiding in the house(actually no one can confirm whether the intelligence is accurate or not). The house-owner, who is an innocent American, have all his 17 family members, including children, womens, killed under the attack. Fortunately, the house-owner was not in the house while the attack and survived. As most Americans are hot-blood, he stood out to blame his US government, not just for himself, he think he need to stop his government to do such thing again and again, and to stop more innocent life being lost in the future. In his belief, his government are created and run by the US citizens, and the government can only act on behalf of its citizen, so the citizens should responsible for what the government did. And US citizens should regulate what their government did. He starts to make noise about his complain, he choose to post on the codeproject forum about his belief and concern, and to arouse other americans belief also, so they can together regulate their government by making their noise louder and louder... But to his surprise.... he get many negative feedbacks from non-Americans as follow, - one Canadian response that the American should tolerate what his government did to him, coz it is just a mistake, and told him that he should allow this mistake happen again and again....coz the US government is created and run by US citizens and the army are all their childrens and go to war voluntarily. - one Pakistanian told the American to forgive his government coz US has donated a huge sum of money to Pakistan after earth quake - one Sweden advise the American should not post such silly message on American website coz the CIA will find him soon... - one Japanese said that all Americans and US government did many good things to the world before, so US government are qualified to kill their citizens by mistake again and again... - some Europeans response that the American are morons, retarded or idiots.... that's all :((
What are you trying to prove with this rant??? Do you honestly believe this will never happen in the US?? It already has.... Search for "Ruby Ridge" and "David Koresh". Two stories that are pretty close to what you describe here. How "innocent" they were depends on who you ask about them, along with how justified the attacks were. RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome -- modified at 14:14 Sunday 15th January, 2006
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Hi all, A story comes after my previous post, In a stary night, the US troops dropped a laser-targeted bomb to a house in California US, coz the army has intelligence about a terrorist hiding in the house(actually no one can confirm whether the intelligence is accurate or not). The house-owner, who is an innocent American, have all his 17 family members, including children, womens, killed under the attack. Fortunately, the house-owner was not in the house while the attack and survived. As most Americans are hot-blood, he stood out to blame his US government, not just for himself, he think he need to stop his government to do such thing again and again, and to stop more innocent life being lost in the future. In his belief, his government are created and run by the US citizens, and the government can only act on behalf of its citizen, so the citizens should responsible for what the government did. And US citizens should regulate what their government did. He starts to make noise about his complain, he choose to post on the codeproject forum about his belief and concern, and to arouse other americans belief also, so they can together regulate their government by making their noise louder and louder... But to his surprise.... he get many negative feedbacks from non-Americans as follow, - one Canadian response that the American should tolerate what his government did to him, coz it is just a mistake, and told him that he should allow this mistake happen again and again....coz the US government is created and run by US citizens and the army are all their childrens and go to war voluntarily. - one Pakistanian told the American to forgive his government coz US has donated a huge sum of money to Pakistan after earth quake - one Sweden advise the American should not post such silly message on American website coz the CIA will find him soon... - one Japanese said that all Americans and US government did many good things to the world before, so US government are qualified to kill their citizens by mistake again and again... - some Europeans response that the American are morons, retarded or idiots.... that's all :((
And the nonsense continues... now directly with fantasy as argumentation. Well, ppp001, I suggest you watch flicks like "Our Man Flint" or "In Like Flint" in order to derive even more accurate characterizations of *americans*. No need to thank me for these invaluable leads.
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Hi all, A story comes after my previous post, In a stary night, the US troops dropped a laser-targeted bomb to a house in California US, coz the army has intelligence about a terrorist hiding in the house(actually no one can confirm whether the intelligence is accurate or not). The house-owner, who is an innocent American, have all his 17 family members, including children, womens, killed under the attack. Fortunately, the house-owner was not in the house while the attack and survived. As most Americans are hot-blood, he stood out to blame his US government, not just for himself, he think he need to stop his government to do such thing again and again, and to stop more innocent life being lost in the future. In his belief, his government are created and run by the US citizens, and the government can only act on behalf of its citizen, so the citizens should responsible for what the government did. And US citizens should regulate what their government did. He starts to make noise about his complain, he choose to post on the codeproject forum about his belief and concern, and to arouse other americans belief also, so they can together regulate their government by making their noise louder and louder... But to his surprise.... he get many negative feedbacks from non-Americans as follow, - one Canadian response that the American should tolerate what his government did to him, coz it is just a mistake, and told him that he should allow this mistake happen again and again....coz the US government is created and run by US citizens and the army are all their childrens and go to war voluntarily. - one Pakistanian told the American to forgive his government coz US has donated a huge sum of money to Pakistan after earth quake - one Sweden advise the American should not post such silly message on American website coz the CIA will find him soon... - one Japanese said that all Americans and US government did many good things to the world before, so US government are qualified to kill their citizens by mistake again and again... - some Europeans response that the American are morons, retarded or idiots.... that's all :((
This post is just begging for ridiculous steriotypes. I, a Canadian, am in full agreement with 50% of the American public in that their government is going against everything their country stands for and should be dealt with. The other 50% are probably the above mentioned "idiots", or, in more fair terms that do not go against both my countries ideals and the ideals in the USA, "completely misunderstood and perhaps misunderstanding individuals."
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Hi all, A story comes after my previous post, In a stary night, the US troops dropped a laser-targeted bomb to a house in California US, coz the army has intelligence about a terrorist hiding in the house(actually no one can confirm whether the intelligence is accurate or not). The house-owner, who is an innocent American, have all his 17 family members, including children, womens, killed under the attack. Fortunately, the house-owner was not in the house while the attack and survived. As most Americans are hot-blood, he stood out to blame his US government, not just for himself, he think he need to stop his government to do such thing again and again, and to stop more innocent life being lost in the future. In his belief, his government are created and run by the US citizens, and the government can only act on behalf of its citizen, so the citizens should responsible for what the government did. And US citizens should regulate what their government did. He starts to make noise about his complain, he choose to post on the codeproject forum about his belief and concern, and to arouse other americans belief also, so they can together regulate their government by making their noise louder and louder... But to his surprise.... he get many negative feedbacks from non-Americans as follow, - one Canadian response that the American should tolerate what his government did to him, coz it is just a mistake, and told him that he should allow this mistake happen again and again....coz the US government is created and run by US citizens and the army are all their childrens and go to war voluntarily. - one Pakistanian told the American to forgive his government coz US has donated a huge sum of money to Pakistan after earth quake - one Sweden advise the American should not post such silly message on American website coz the CIA will find him soon... - one Japanese said that all Americans and US government did many good things to the world before, so US government are qualified to kill their citizens by mistake again and again... - some Europeans response that the American are morons, retarded or idiots.... that's all :((
Let it, from this day forward, be known that if you invite an enemy of the US, the basterd who planned the 9-11 attacks and killed 3,000 people of all nations, to dinner... It might be your last. Anyone who harbors or gives quarter to the enemy of the USA is the enemy of the USA. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-01-15-pakistan-attack\_x.htm If you kill 3,000 people in New York your damm straight Americans get hot blooded. These were not innocent people. They were aiding the enemy so don't feel sorry for them. If in 1941 we had a chance to blow up Hitler at a dinner party with a bunch of Nazi's generals would you have felt sorry for them? Same thing in this situation. Moral of the story is don't invite a marked man to dinner. Sorry, I know this should be in the Soapbox but it's not so I responded here. E=mc2 -> BOOM
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Let it, from this day forward, be known that if you invite an enemy of the US, the basterd who planned the 9-11 attacks and killed 3,000 people of all nations, to dinner... It might be your last. Anyone who harbors or gives quarter to the enemy of the USA is the enemy of the USA. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-01-15-pakistan-attack\_x.htm If you kill 3,000 people in New York your damm straight Americans get hot blooded. These were not innocent people. They were aiding the enemy so don't feel sorry for them. If in 1941 we had a chance to blow up Hitler at a dinner party with a bunch of Nazi's generals would you have felt sorry for them? Same thing in this situation. Moral of the story is don't invite a marked man to dinner. Sorry, I know this should be in the Soapbox but it's not so I responded here. E=mc2 -> BOOM
Well that certainly adds some missing details to the subject now doesn't it?
Some assembly required. Code-frog System Architects, Inc.
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Well that certainly adds some missing details to the subject now doesn't it?
Some assembly required. Code-frog System Architects, Inc.
To speak for all americans, as "Albert Einstein" does, only helps ppp001 and his troupe to become even more convinced that there are no individual human beings living in the US and, rather, that the country is populated with single minded robots acting in unison. Aside from being utterly and profundly mistaken, such generalizations are the wet dreams of bigots: "There is but one enemy, they all (and the people they dine with, apparently)".
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To speak for all americans, as "Albert Einstein" does, only helps ppp001 and his troupe to become even more convinced that there are no individual human beings living in the US and, rather, that the country is populated with single minded robots acting in unison. Aside from being utterly and profundly mistaken, such generalizations are the wet dreams of bigots: "There is but one enemy, they all (and the people they dine with, apparently)".
Ummm...
I was just referring to the link. I do so love the generalization though. Nice one.
Some assembly required. Code-frog System Architects, Inc.
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Ummm...
I was just referring to the link. I do so love the generalization though. Nice one.
Some assembly required. Code-frog System Architects, Inc.
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To speak for all americans, as "Albert Einstein" does, only helps ppp001 and his troupe to become even more convinced that there are no individual human beings living in the US and, rather, that the country is populated with single minded robots acting in unison. Aside from being utterly and profundly mistaken, such generalizations are the wet dreams of bigots: "There is but one enemy, they all (and the people they dine with, apparently)".
Sorry for the generalization. Of course I was speaking for my self. There are the bleeding heart type of Americans who would not agree with me. There are also those who treat terrorism as a criminal act and not an act of war. In the US and in the case of a criminal act you are not assumed to also be guilty even if you hang out with people who turn out to be. However in the case of an act of war that is not the case (lot's of rules go our the window as a matter of law when we talk war vs crime so don't blame me) As for Albert, he was a pacifist so I am sure he would not approve of my comments. He always regretted that E=mc2 was used to create the atomic bomb (see my sig.). I admire him not for his politics but for his thoughts and creativity. I do think he would think the latter was more important anyway. I think that ppp001 should know that there is more diversity of thought in the US then perhaps anywhere in the world simply because we live in a free country, where people are free to express thier thoughts. Unlike Iran, Iraq (to a degree even today), Syria and other places (mostly in the middle east). E=mc2 -> BOOM
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Now I see the link. The hatemonger's motto did come out round, yes,... and poignantly distressing as well.
I don't know that I'm ready to call anybody a hate monger. None of this is simple at all. Do I think killing 17 is okay trying to get the 1? Frankly we don't have enough information about the 17. Do I think the {insert several rude names here} who planned 911 and carried it out should be found at all costs? That's a tough one to. Someone (him) hates the United States at such a deep level it's difficult to fathom. Any dead American to them is a job well done (or so it would seem). Does that justify hate back towards them? I'm not one to say yes or know. I do know that as a result of lashbacks here in the U.S. of Americans towards muslims there are now muslims going after terrorists in their own ways because they want to live here in peace and terrorism is making that hard for them. The result is desirable do I agree with the means? Probably not. I don't think it's fair to harass muslims here for what terrorists are doing. Honestly I think that if it's a problem of that magnitude we shouldn't be over there going after them we should just not allow *any* of them in to the U.S. (that's not hate nor is it violent). If we kick them all out carrying out terrorists acts on our soil is more difficult. It will also make them fix the problem in their own country. "If you want to the come to the U.S. then make sure your buddies back home don't ruin your stay." If they want to come here bad enough let them dump their own time, money, blood and energy into getting here.
Anyway, calling someone a hate monger seems a bit like becoming what you beheld and being content you've done right. I don't see any easy solution to this. I don't think there's a right side and a wrong side to stand on. I believe this is a very tough issue and solutions, effective solutions are going to be very hard to come by. Do I think what the United States is doing now to try and fix the problem will work? In a word, NOPE. Do I have any better ideas? In a word, NOPE.
None of this is simple or easy and name-calling at any level isn't going to help matters. It will just build anger (which is ironic) and anger is not a solution at all. I think everyone, no matter how strongly they may feel needs to step back and calm down. If a solution is to be found it will be found from calm people who reason the problem out with well collected thoughts and actions. Anger is neither well collected or thoughtful it's not too different from 17 people being dead. We need to be careful that we don't become hypocritical in our posturing
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Sorry for the generalization. Of course I was speaking for my self. There are the bleeding heart type of Americans who would not agree with me. There are also those who treat terrorism as a criminal act and not an act of war. In the US and in the case of a criminal act you are not assumed to also be guilty even if you hang out with people who turn out to be. However in the case of an act of war that is not the case (lot's of rules go our the window as a matter of law when we talk war vs crime so don't blame me) As for Albert, he was a pacifist so I am sure he would not approve of my comments. He always regretted that E=mc2 was used to create the atomic bomb (see my sig.). I admire him not for his politics but for his thoughts and creativity. I do think he would think the latter was more important anyway. I think that ppp001 should know that there is more diversity of thought in the US then perhaps anywhere in the world simply because we live in a free country, where people are free to express thier thoughts. Unlike Iran, Iraq (to a degree even today), Syria and other places (mostly in the middle east). E=mc2 -> BOOM
Albert Einstein. wrote:
Sorry for the generalization. Of course I was speaking for my self.
Yes, you were. Keeping it in mind should help you concoct more balanced opinions. For instance, you might have avoided saying exactly the same as ppp001 while thinking you were saying the opposite.
Albert Einstein. wrote:
There are the bleeding heart type of Americans who would not agree with me.
Not only bleeding heart types. And since you now are looking for someone else's head to knock, I'll tell you that adults also disagree with you.
Albert Einstein. wrote:
I think that ppp001 should know that there is more diversity of thought in the US then perhaps anywhere in the world simply because we live in a free country, where people are free to express thier thoughts.
You should travel overseas more. And since you have almost produced the absurdly common "America is the only country in the world that... (fill in with your most preposterous delusion)" and will add that nothing makes me laugh the most as an american, than the infantile cliche "America is the only country in the world where any one can become president". As if.
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Now I see the link. The hatemonger's motto did come out round, yes,... and poignantly distressing as well.
If I am a hatemonger for wanting to blow up they guy who killed 3,000 people then I guess I'm a hatemonger. If I'm a hatemonger for not caring if we blew up 17 people who support call him friend and help him out in his quest to kill Americans, then I'm a hatemonger. But remember, he hated us first. E=mc2 -> BOOM
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I don't know that I'm ready to call anybody a hate monger. None of this is simple at all. Do I think killing 17 is okay trying to get the 1? Frankly we don't have enough information about the 17. Do I think the {insert several rude names here} who planned 911 and carried it out should be found at all costs? That's a tough one to. Someone (him) hates the United States at such a deep level it's difficult to fathom. Any dead American to them is a job well done (or so it would seem). Does that justify hate back towards them? I'm not one to say yes or know. I do know that as a result of lashbacks here in the U.S. of Americans towards muslims there are now muslims going after terrorists in their own ways because they want to live here in peace and terrorism is making that hard for them. The result is desirable do I agree with the means? Probably not. I don't think it's fair to harass muslims here for what terrorists are doing. Honestly I think that if it's a problem of that magnitude we shouldn't be over there going after them we should just not allow *any* of them in to the U.S. (that's not hate nor is it violent). If we kick them all out carrying out terrorists acts on our soil is more difficult. It will also make them fix the problem in their own country. "If you want to the come to the U.S. then make sure your buddies back home don't ruin your stay." If they want to come here bad enough let them dump their own time, money, blood and energy into getting here.
Anyway, calling someone a hate monger seems a bit like becoming what you beheld and being content you've done right. I don't see any easy solution to this. I don't think there's a right side and a wrong side to stand on. I believe this is a very tough issue and solutions, effective solutions are going to be very hard to come by. Do I think what the United States is doing now to try and fix the problem will work? In a word, NOPE. Do I have any better ideas? In a word, NOPE.
None of this is simple or easy and name-calling at any level isn't going to help matters. It will just build anger (which is ironic) and anger is not a solution at all. I think everyone, no matter how strongly they may feel needs to step back and calm down. If a solution is to be found it will be found from calm people who reason the problem out with well collected thoughts and actions. Anger is neither well collected or thoughtful it's not too different from 17 people being dead. We need to be careful that we don't become hypocritical in our posturing
Interesting reflexion, but problematic. For example,
code-frog wrote:
Any dead American to them is a job well done (or so it would seem). Does that justify hate back towards them?
The saying is actually ours and has been used to refer to some of our fellow citizens at different times throughout our history. Does it justfy their hatred towards the rest of us? As I said, problematic. "Just" response is a subjective value and retaliation can go to the end of time. It sure started at the beginning of time.
code-frog wrote:
Anyway, calling someone a hate monger seems a bit like becoming what you beheld and being content you've done right.
Actually, this is not the case. Your difficulty in deciding what to think, morally speaking, is very common and usually originates in the confusion between elaborating a description of a situation and arriving at a moral evaluation of said situation. I use "hatemongering"/"bigotry" descriptively. In particular, I am addressing the cognitive tendency to categorize, to generalize, to stereotype. I am addressing the danger associated with the dehumanizing of each single person as they are deprived of individuality by being crunched into purely conceptual entities, that is, into labelled groups. For example, as an unique individual, you may be a bachelor, democrat, left-handed; you may love your mother, cheesecake, and baseball; you may prefer mexican food and honda motorcycles; you may have a wonderful sense of humor. As a "man" (labelled by a feminist bigot) you are violent, dense, coarse, and a rapist waiting to explode. She feels entitled to speak for 3 billion human beings, and (check this out) to criminalize another 3 billion human beings. At the drop of a hat. As if there were nothing strange about it. As if it were the most normal thing in the world. In short, purely conceptual entities take any desired characteristic and in the hands of bigots can prove deadly. You say I anger them, I say they are angry already. These are people going through difficult times in their lives, often times with serious psychological problems and falling pray to political adventures. The moment that you ask a bigot to stop generalizing, they are forced to shut up. You are helping them break the circular thinking in their heads. It is the kryptonite of bigots. You may not succeed but you will make your life and that of those
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If I am a hatemonger for wanting to blow up they guy who killed 3,000 people then I guess I'm a hatemonger. If I'm a hatemonger for not caring if we blew up 17 people who support call him friend and help him out in his quest to kill Americans, then I'm a hatemonger. But remember, he hated us first. E=mc2 -> BOOM