(February 14, 2017 at 2:12 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Has it never occurred to you that the people who strap them with vests are leveraging a legitimate grievance in order to convince them that this sacrifice has merit? That the people themselves feel that their own life is worth less than whatever aim they seek to achieve? You know why they like to recruit them as young boys? The loss of their father, or mother, or siblings..or father and mother and siblings... is fresh in mind. My experience..so, anecdotal, but the most fanatic insurgents were always the ones who had suffered a horrendous loss.
Typical, though..."hur dur terrorists!". Usual Objection™ noted. The protesters here are also likened to (or just flat out called) terrorists.
I'm not comparing protesters to terrorists.
I'm disagreeing with you.
I don't believe that every time someone is willing to risk their life for a cause that it makes that cause justifiable.
I used Islamic terrorists an example but there's plenty of others.
Timothy mcveigh, Elliot Rodgers. Sacrificed his own life in order to take vengenge on the women who rejected him.
Maybe you made the comment without thinking but that's one of the most stupid statements I've seen, that a cause is justified the moment someone risks their life for it.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
