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Old 05-12-2004, 05:32 AM   #81 (permalink)
noahfor
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Originally posted by shakran

And there's a mistake being made about the anger toward the beheading. We have to remember the culture we're dealing with here. This is a culture that cuts off your hand if you're caught stealing. It's a culture where it is not unheard of for people to be punished for the crimes of their relatives.

And now they watch Americans torturing their own people. What reaction did you expect? They're gonna be pissed off - doubly so because we marched in there shouting to the world how wonderful we are and how morally sound we are and how nice, respectful, and mindful of human rights we were. And then our people do something like this? Exactly what do you THINK Iraqis are going to feel about that?
Who cares what they feel about it? Who cares about their culture? Who cares what we did? Who cares if we should have been able to tell what they were going to do? I don't mean absolutely "who cares", I mean as it relates to anger about what they did.

What they did was the most vivid display of malice and ignorance, the most egregious act of indifference to human life I have ever heard of. There was no passion, there was no dissociation from the victim. He was right there in front of them, a person. I can't respond to that without anger just because it was predictable.

You can give reasons why they did it, but no reason would ever ever justify taking an innocent life.

We are all people. There is no differnce between groups of people other than the rules they abide by. The range of moral character is the same in any group. If it was socially acceptable to do so, I'm sure Americans would chop off the heads of iraqis.

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