tulc said:What, you mean with a stop watch or something? "Ok 5 min more over the prisoners, then we switch to the beheading!" vile acts are vile acts, and I don't think one cancels the other out. This is one of those "Eye for an eye" things that ends up with everyone being blind to anything but shedding more blood. (IMHO)
tulc(I'm whitetrash and Irish, I know everyone suffers when getting even is the only thing on people minds)
"We justify killing by using technology," Mr. Jerrett said. "We use lasers and smart bombs. They cut someone's head off with a knife. We look at them like they're so barbaric," but "it's all killing, one way or another."
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/13/national/13VOIC.html
Mϋzikdϋde said:I would really like to vote but I can't find the button for "Oversensationalizing vile acts to gain ratings"...
Also, posters at CF are doing a pretty good job of keeping the story alive. Can we have any more threads on the subject?
It's like when you pass road kill and are completely grossed out but you just gotta try to figure out what it was.
HumbleMan said:Both stories should be treated as seperate events, not intertwined to make it one worse than the other, with a slant of whatever political view you hold. As a Christian, I weep for all those involved.
mhatten said:You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to HumbleMan again.
foxy2 said:You forgot one. "All of the Above"
Blessed75 said:I would say you hit the nail on the head but then someone would twist that around to try and rile people up so I'll just say I agree with you.
BigToe said:Why do people make it a game over who gets "outraged" over which events more. They were both horrible crimes against humanity and should both be looked upon with disgust.
edited to add that I can still say my input although others already have the same agreement as I. I don't see a problem with that.Larry said:'Equally devistating' has already been agreed to in this thread, without a problem.
And, let's not assume the motivations of others. When we do this, we are usually wrong, and may cause flare-ups in the threads, resulting in threads being closed.
Thanks.
That's a good point, and I'd wager that our troops over there may be in more danger from the insurgents now than they already were.burrow_owl said:the torture business is potentially more devastating to the whole war effort - if it significantly contributes to failure on our part to secure an ally in the region, than all those lives and all that money will be for naught. That's a lotta lives, and a lotta money. What happened to Berg was truly horrible, but given what happened to Daniel Pearl, it could be hardly be said to be unforeseeable.
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