RE: How much do you know about the raid on Pearl Harbor?
December 14, 2018 at 2:35 pm
(This post was last modified: December 14, 2018 at 2:39 pm by Brian37.)
(December 14, 2018 at 10:33 am)Chad32 Wrote:(December 14, 2018 at 10:18 am)Brian37 Wrote: ^^^^^ This is what makes me angry at the far right Rambo nuts. It is one thing to say to oneself, "It's them or me". That is bad enough, but like I said, it isn't something to relish in, and that quote reveals the reality of the real compassion that it is something you really don't want to do.
It is the same as that Japanese pilot I quoted in another thread who was in on the Pearl Harbor raid. He realized at that moment, he was killing his fellow human beings. Again, it isn't that you can have a perfect world where nobody fights, but it is heartening to see that sometimes, despite the differences in friends and foe's governments, there is an evolutionary humanity, that shows up in places we don't always expect.
It is good to remember that the people over there are Human too. It's a problem the American government has regarding Yemen and Palestinians right now.
I am not an either or person. Right now as far as what the Prince did with the reporter, fuck him. But in saying that Atlass33, our resident Muslim, is simply stuck under a horrible government, and I don't want to treat him in the same way like I hate the Prince.
Same with Palestine and Israel. I hate Bibi, I think Israel can do far better than that Jewish Dick Cheney. But, that does not mean Palestine's backers like Hamas are a bastion of pluralism. And trust me I am horrified that there is an orange jackass bully who called for Muslim bans, and imprisoned kids at the border.
In my 17 years of almost daily online activity on multiple social websites, I have had conversations with people all over the world. I have talked to Jews who hate Bibi. I have talked to Saudis and Iranians who hate their governments. I have talked to former Muslims, former Jews, former Hindus, former Buddhists, not just former Christians.
The more I talk to my fellow humans, the more I hate knowing how capable we are of non violence and how capable we are of compassion, but fall short of diplomacy and far to much resort to war.
If human morality were a patent owned by one label, started and invented by one label, and that was an absolute cure for all of humanity, then we would not consistently find that all nations have hospitals and prisons.
