16 Sep 12, 04:51AM
I'm interested in how calling people animals, monkeys, and referring to them coming out of huts fosters world peace. Seems you're sending mixed signals Nightmare.
Also, reveling in the death of Osama is, as anderson pointed out, a great tragedy in itself. Rather than pulling together to fight the attitudes that cause this hate, we foster it more by assassinating the person we force the blame upon. It was Ghandi that said "an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind." What makes us better than them? If you're argument, as it seems to go, says "They are religious extremists and act in an animal fashion, but our extremists do it the right way" then I'm afraid, sadly, both parties have essentially not only missed the point, but succeeded in achieving moral fallacy.
Also, reveling in the death of Osama is, as anderson pointed out, a great tragedy in itself. Rather than pulling together to fight the attitudes that cause this hate, we foster it more by assassinating the person we force the blame upon. It was Ghandi that said "an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind." What makes us better than them? If you're argument, as it seems to go, says "They are religious extremists and act in an animal fashion, but our extremists do it the right way" then I'm afraid, sadly, both parties have essentially not only missed the point, but succeeded in achieving moral fallacy.