(September 23, 2015 at 11:11 am)Yeauxleaux Wrote: Absolutely everything about that "culture" is ass-backwards. I'm wondering when exactly defending culture became more important than defending actual people.
It's the paradox of it that kills me. Servicemen no less, who are there to stamp out extremism and protect people like those boys, can't intervene.
That's the thing, in the U.S.'s case at least, we're not defending culture. We're defending our own self-interests, and if a few little brown boys get raped along the way, that's just collateral damage.
It's a shitty world out there, and we can't stop all culturally ingrained human rights violations like this without overextending ourselves and collapsing. But when we Americans prance around like the police of the world while turning a blind eye to terrible criminal acts right in front of our faces, it's blatant hypocrisy, and that's what kills me.
We Americans like to see ourselves as the arbiters of freedom, but our actions show that we're only looking out for #1. It's enough to make me want to start breaking stuff when I think about it.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
