RE: 19 dead, 50 injured, after terror attack
May 25, 2017 at 3:46 pm
(This post was last modified: May 25, 2017 at 3:55 pm by Brian37.)
(May 25, 2017 at 12:56 pm)alpha male Wrote:(May 25, 2017 at 12:09 pm)Brian37 Wrote: You don't get to chose who migrates to the west.
Actually, yes, sovereign nations can choose who they let in and who they don't.
(May 25, 2017 at 12:55 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I let my son cross streets once I taught him how, even though his odds of being struck and killed by a car were enormously larger than his odds of dying in a terrorist attack.
And?
The fact that there are necessary risks in life doesn't mean that we must indiscriminately accept unnecessary risks.
(May 25, 2017 at 12:55 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I refuse to let fear change who I am.
Why? If my neighborhood was becoming dangerous, I'd get better locks, maybe a security system, and start looking at places in a safer neighborhood. I don't see that it's virtuous to leave my doors unlocked just because that's what I've done in the past. Fear isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Stop talking as if you are the only one living in this country, "my neighborhood".....
No, sorry laws are in place to vet people coming in yes, nobody is fucking arguing that. When you are talking about people fleeing poverty or crime or war, you don't assume automatic guilt by proxy of source. SECONDLY you keep forgetting our bombers have been OUTNUMBERED by far more non violent migrants. THIRD, McVeigh was NOT a Muslim. Roof was not a Muslim, so are you saying their acts of violence means we profile all white angry people? Seems like you are cherry picking here.
FYI America turned away a boat full of Jews during WW2 they got sent back and most of the 900 ended up being murdered by the Nazis. And don't bring up the Cuba crap, because ultimately they wanted to end up in America.
Fear is fucking bullshit. Fear is what closed societies sell. Fear is what Saudi Arabia sells to their population. Fear is what Kim Jong Un sells to his population. Fear of the outsider.
Being safe and having watchdogs is fine, being so paranoid you cant have empathy for your fellow human not only makes you delusional it makes you tone deaf to your fellow human.
You talk like Frank Burns on MASH. Hyper nationalist and always scared.
You have more of a shot dying in a robbery or domestic murder or even dying in a car crash.
I am going to go to some pretty crowded places when my friend visits me, but that is not going to stop me. And you even missed the post where I quoted a Pakistani Muslim who had a van taxi who was AT THE CONCERT and drove 24 teens home for free. That interview was on CBS This Morning yesterday, he said "That could have been my daughter". Now you'd be an asshole to him a guy who wouldn't do what the bomber did? You'd be an asshole to him because of his name or his religion or origin? Nope sorry, that makes you a heartless person.
You don't lump entire groups together, you treat individuals as such.
