China good, Americans bad!

[Deeko]

Originally posted by: gwlam12

Originally posted by: Crappopotamus

To everyone saying "what does this have to do with Chinese"....you are WAAAY to sensitive. If you are Chinese and taking offense to this because I said he is Chinese, grow the hell up, I never said anything about Chinese people being bad, or that all Chinese people think like this, or ANYTHING even remotely like that. I pointed out he was Chinese because I was setting up the story, he grew up in China and is now in America, I never stereotyped Chinese people, and you AT'ers are too damn sensitive.

i am one of those people. im just pointing it out. its not like im mad or anything. people were mentioning the whole chinese thing.

the thread title is kinda mocking isnt it?

it sums up his feelings.

 

[gwlam12]

Originally posted by: Deeko
There is this Chinese kid in my Humanities class, speaks very poor English, you can tell he immigrated here. Anyway, today we were discussing a story about a guy who keeps burning down the barns of people he works for. His 10 year old son eventually told one of the owners, while his father was in the process of burning it down. The owner goes and shoots the guy.

The kid in my class says "That man is stupid, human life is more precious than objects. You Americans always want to shoot everyone."
My professor decides to debate him, asking him what he would do if someone was trying to burn down his house. The kid says he would not use a gun. The prof said "ok, hypothetically, you have only 2 choices. Shoot the man trying to burn down your house that you worked 30 years to pay for, and save it, or let him burn it. You have no insurance." The kid wouldn't give an answer, kept saying he would shoot a warning shot or try to shoot him in the leg.

It went on for about 15 minutes. The kid kept saying that Americans are horrible because guns are so commonplace, we think its ok to shoot people trying to rob us...apparently its ok to defend yourself, but not with a gun? Assault with a deadly weapon is the same regardless of what that weapon is. He also went as far as to say he WOULDN'T shoot someone with a gun to his own mother's head, and that it would NOT have been ok to shoot Hitler, knowing what he would go on to accomplish.

Kid, go back to China if we are so terrible here.

I think the part where he says he wouldn't shoot a guy who held a gun to his mother's head is the part where he may have slipped. His whole argument was that human life is more precious than objects, yet in the example, it isn't comparing a human life with an objects. It's comparing a human life with another human life and the guy was so persistant in defending his view that he didn't catch the unparallel comparison.