subrosaDom -> RE: The current middle eastern crisis is Israels fault... (8/4/2014 4:34:43 PM)
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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer quote:
And we know that having a majority of appeasing, whimpering, ball-less (ovary-less so as not to be discriminatory) people makes it true? Truth isn't determined by majority vote. Two psychopathic killers would have killed a random person, not a military one; they wouldn't have shouted Muslim shibboleths as they killed; they wouldn't have spent years studying the Q'uran; etc. I actually know quite a lot academically about psychopathy and they did not fit the definition at all, DSM or otherwise. Well, all I can say is that your knowledge of psychopathy seems to be at variance with the experts who dealt with the matter here, subrosaDom. Myself, I've heard of killers who've studied the Bible in order to build up a rationalisation for their murdering. There are many notorious cases. So, why is this case different? And when it comes to 'appeasing killers' - and to wrench this back to the subject at hand - one of the most common charges of 'appeasement of killers' currently here seems to be aimed at our prime minister, David Cameron - for appeasing the Israeli government, not the Palestinians. I mean, when we get down to it, this is beginning to sound like, 'Aha! Your view works in practice, but does it work *in theory*?' The IDF is killing very large numbers of people. The Gazans are not. Does it matter if the Israeli State makes warm and fluffy noises, while the Gazans make blood-curdling noises, if it is in fact the former who are doing the butchering of large numbers of civilians, while the latter are not? Yes. Random killers have studied the Bible to find rationalizations for killing. Absolutely true. They have not organized into cells, jihad squads, as it were, or flown planes into buildings. Any individual psychopath can find any basis whatsoever -- the blood moon of the prior night, for example. All of them are outliers. Only Muslims consistently and not only as individuals but as entire congregrations and states act psychopathically. Not a lot of non-Muslim suicide bombers are there? There are self-immolating Tibetan monks, sure, but they're not immolating others. The IDF is killing large numbers of people just as the Allies did in WWII. Since Hamas hides its arsenals among its people, in hospitals, and in schools, then who is responsible for such violations of international law? Or is the IDF supposed to sit back and say, well, we can't attack Hamas because they violated int'l law, so we'll let their suicide squads come up out of the ground in the middle of schools in order to kill our children? The entire moral responsibility lies with Hamas. Now, can there be misguided missiles and strikes? Sure. It happens in war. War is hell. There is a world of difference between the deliberate targeting of innocent civilians not in harm's way (the Hamas way) and the targeting of arsenals and terroristic weapons and terrorists themselves so pusillanimous that they hide amongst their own wives and children so as to stir up sympathies among the hate Israeli crowd. You have asserted a moral equivalence between Hamas and the IDF, when there is no more more equivalence between them than between the Axis and the Allies.
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