A shorter sentence would have been adequate.
Nup, letting that one go through to the keeper.
Phil and TG, thanks for understanding that my somewhat convoluted views aren't a denial of things as they should be, but an attempt to try and dig into the reasons behind the way things sometimes have to be. It's nice not to be instantly burnt at the stake as a heretic. Thank you.
My hobby in life lately is to try and encourage some people on forums look at things from a wider angle and not take any comment of a different aspect of an issue as an insult to their own views. It isn't. I figure if I'm learning from looking at how they see something then it's only fair that they at least look at how I see it. That it usually ends up in a stoush says way too much about how shallowly many people are thinking. Too many forums just consist of like minded people bolstering each other's convictions.
I'm as aware as anyone that this M.E. action is based on oil and money, the crack about 'freedom, justice and democracy' was just an attempt at dripping irony. The comparison of 'their' psychos and ours is not based on anything more than making a point that things need to be looked at more than one way. Thank you Phil, "
One man's terrorist is the next man's freedom fighter. 'Twas always thus." You get my meaning.
By 'emotion' I mean the gut reaction of applying our own personal principles and ethics to situations as the sole basis for decisions.
Ethics are a luxury that can't always be afforded. Taking ethics to the UN these days is like taking a knife to a gunfight.
I appreciate and hold ethics as the basic social structure that allows villages to expand beyond relatives.But they are 'our' personal ethics and a poor weapon against those who aren't handicapped by them. Sometimes we must suspend them to survive.
We are being, and have been for centuries, sold the pup (con) of 'fighting for right, justice and freedom' to cover up the real reasons for War.
By looking at each incident in isolation, and getting wound up in the ethics/emotion of each is to totally overlook the bigger picture.
Our better instincts won't stop Wars, we'll never win against City Hall either. What we need to do is try and understand what they're really up to and not swallow whole the jingoistic righteous messages they sell us.
We still won't stop them but that will allow us to at least better adapt to them, and maybe lower our blood pressure a little in the process.
We should stop taking what's happening globally so 'personally'. It's not about individuals, it's not even about individual Nations any more. It's a huge game being played by people with big agendas and using politicians who can't scratch their arses and talk at the same time to manage we 'chess pieces.'
I'm not a conspiracy theorist, just a realist. It's been ever thus, just on a grander scale now. We can't do much about it but at least we can be aware that we're being manipulated by our own personal 'emotions' and sense of 'rightness' into reacting as they want us to.
'They're' fighting for Allah, and 'We' go in singing 'Onward Christian Soldiers' while the Oil Sheiks and 'our' Politicians sit sipping coffee together in the UN watching the 'game.'
'Personally' I don't care enough to charge into the guns to try and stop them, I've just adapted to accepting that life is messy, that baddies and idiots exist in much the same ratio in all cultures, that money will always be king, and somebody will always want something enough to kill you for it.
That's life. It really doesn't get any prettier by tarting it up in righteous sounding tinsel. Just sayin'.
