(July 14, 2009 at 11:27 am)Rhizomorph13 Wrote: Please correct me if I am wrong, but I don't imagine you consciously choose to devalue anyone so much as you realize that is a natural thing that happens in our minds.
Pretty much ... I'd assume an Afghani puts as much value on his/her own life as I do on mine though I still believe there is a certain freedom, life expectation and so on in the West (freedoms, longevities etc. that don't exist in some places) that could be argued to mean our lives have greater expectation therefore greater value but I suppose that is a purely relativistic POV.
The main point I wanted to get across is that the people in Afghanistan mean very little to me (doesn't mean I'm not shocked) because I cannot relate to their POV, their customs or their lives ... it's a bit like being French really, would anyone care if they got nuked?
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Kyu
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