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Originally Posted by ratbastid
I'm constantly amazed at the effort people put into blinding themselves to any point of view but their own, and the goofy shit they pull to maintain their world-view. I mean, for instance, not to see Hezbullah's side of the recent conflict takes actual concerted effort. I'm not condoning random civilian-targetted rocket fire, but to just say, "Well, they're the bad guys"... I mean, that can only be deliberate ignorance.
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Not many people wake up thinking, 'gee what evil can I do today'.
I know people who still give the old 'Hitler did good things too' line. One is a very nice guy who had a Grandfather in the Waffen SS and another relative who was on trial for warcrimes after WWII. Every conflict has two sides, and there is almost always something good you can find in your enemy, but that doesn't mean that you should support them or remain neutral.
Its a mental check list.
They build schools -good
The school teach the children to hate the jews - bad
They build hospitals - good
They put arms and military bunkers inside to either prevent attack or exploit the civilian casualties if they are attacked - bad
They want to destroy isreal - ok well bad
To me Hezzbolah isn't 'the bad guys' because someone told me they were. Hezzbolah are the bad guys because they do a lot of bad things, like teaching a generation to hate and murder based on religion.
Oh and yea there is that whole 'random civilian rocket fire' thing too, you seem to weakly dismiss.
Sometimes in life its important to grow a backbone and pick a side, not waffle around trying to find the evil in good and the good in evil.