Originally posted by: SamurAchzar
Sorry, but
this has no precedence, anywhere. Not in the most patriotic war spurts has an American government made a TV show calling for its 10 years old to commit suicide against their enemies.
Our 'GI Joe' dolls for boys are a lot closer to promoting the similar wrongs of unjust violence, planting the romanticization of war, than you might realize of want to admit, but the blindness caused by cultural myopia, being too close to the trees to see the forest, might make you thing the differences are more significant than they are.
But yes, I condemn the seducing of 10 year olds to war whether suicide or not.
I don't revoke their right to fight what they think they unjust
Except that when it suits your convenice, you pretend that it's two equal military sides, you pretend they have any options for actually fighting what they think unjust.
I do think they should leave kids out of it, on both sides, and I think they should accept their responsibility for the outcome. They failed to do both.
Israel has the luxury of not having any pressure to militarize its children since they have the luxury of vast military resources, courtesy of me and other Americans.
Our disagreement is not about the wrong in the Palestenian culture of militarizing children. It's about the one-sidedness of your only condemning half the problem.
So am I the monster, or the Hamas leader sending a 16 y/o to make a suicide bombing inside a crowd of other 16 years old?
Am I the monster, or the one who flies a passenger jet into a skyscraper for some political goal?
Is Hitler the monster, or his arvh-enemy Stalin the monster? (Answer: both are).
When you support a regime that *allies* with Saddam as he gasses Iranian children when it suits their purpose, and then goes to war against him when it suits their interests, creating a foreign military presence in the heart of Muslim's homeland, are you right to *only* start keeping score when those wrongs have the backlash of a radical Muslim group attack that regime with a terrorist attack, as if it was for no reason, "some political goal"?
Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians killed by our actions with the embargo count for zero, but you keep score when the violence changes direction. You are both monsters.
Sorry if I don't see such people as part of the human race.
That's because you are not in the same desperate situations you place others in. You have the luxury, the arrogance and the corruption of the more powerful society.
Why are they not part of the human race for their wrongs, but those who kill two million Vietnamese for no good reason are part of the human race?
I think differently, I act differently, and I cherish different things.
No, you don't. That's the sad thing about your blindness. Where is your moral outrage about the victims I mention above and many others for which the US has responsibility?
Missing, because of your blindness when the tables are turned.
I'm not saying you are recognizing evil and choosing it; rather, you are blind to it.
If, for you, having 2 arms, 2 legs and an upright stance is enough to qualify as a member of the human race, you might as well go and reproduce with a Chimpanzee. I doubt the offspring will be too genetically diverse anyway.
Oh, I avoid the hyperbole you indulge in that people who do evil are not human. I not only include the oppressed Palestenians who do so, I even include you in it, barely.
When you find you are making such an ass of yourself as to try to make attacks calling someone monkey like, you should realize it's in your interest to put down the keyboard.