(June 19, 2015 at 7:36 pm)Exian Wrote: Kitan, your view will never be a popular one, even if you set aside the empathy argument (and I suspect you're getting the reaction you wanted). Consider all the people who weren't shot in that church; I'm one of them. You asked for a few more, well, that could have been anyone one of us, or your family, or you. You have shown that you do not care who gets killed. You have shown that you do not value individual lives.
Good point Exian. Even I have empathy for people I have a basic philosophical difference with, the belief in the transcendental of any kind. I often criticize Christians and their religious beliefs, but I am not without a heart. Tears came to my eyes when I watched the news reports of the aftermath of the Charleston Church Massacre. Those 9 people were human beings, minding their own business, and opened their arms to Roof. Those 9 people did not have to die.
On my musings of what has transpired for the past few days, it occurred to me that in all the times I went to Atlanta Freethought Society meetings, who was to say some religious nutter with a beef against us heathens would never have come in to shoot up the Freethought Hall, and I as well as many others could be dead? It happened to Muslims, it has happened to Sikhs and Jews, and it could happen to us. Hate is not a respecter of anyone. It could have happened to any one of us.
So Kitan, please, have some dignity and humanity.
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."--Thomas Jefferson
