I didn't I was to blame for the war in iraq (when I was in highschool mind you), nor did I know I promote conflicts to "my ends". I didn't know I had ends:p
I think you might have a few personal issues with america that you need to work out. The country is not made of george bush clones haha
yeah, it's not even a joke. It's very applicable. It would be a reasonable thing to say, unless you think it's funny that kids in africa don't have food either.
while your comment is pretty... shabby, it does bring up a good point.
If a planet the size of earth crashed into us, I'm willing to bed that people would die pretty much instantly from many different causes. That being said, there would be no need to feel sympathy for any of the entire planet's population.
there would be no suffering, so parents sad over the deaths of their children, no anything to feel anything about. The only reason we're sympathetic at all is because there are other people left to feel sympathy for.
Would it be acceptable that instead of half of us just dying that half of us stop reproducing and live out our days while the other half makes sure that their numbers do not increase?
I agree with your sentiment, although I've never been shot at myself, so I don't know if my opinion matters. I certainly wouldn't want my family and friends to worry about me though. It seems like that would be a little selfish.
I'm a supposedly educated person. I also think those gifs with stars of david crashing into the twin towers are funny because firstly, they imply the ridiculous notion that Jews were responsible for 9/11 with flying stars of david, and secondly they make fun of and point out the ridiculous nature of stereotypes in general. It's rather unoffensive when presented in such a farcical manner, if you have an open mind and you yourself aren't a racial profiler.
This applies to other funny gifs with stereo types that apply to whatever ethnic, racial, and social groups I may or may not belong to. I just chose that one because it popped into my head.
I think the real point of this "discussion" has lost it's way. I don't believe it's a way of coping, but I also think that people are well within reasonable expectations to make insensitive comments. I for one don't want to live it in a world without people who make fun of horrible tragedies.
I also don't want a world without people who get outraged at people who are insensitive. Checks and balances, you know?
I for one make jokes about terrible things, while at other times I feel genuine pain for what happened in the same tragedy. Insensitive humor and sympathy are not mutually exclusive though, and it's important for everyone to understand that, otherwise people get into big/. debates about this very subject...
Who? What?
What the heck are you talking about? Who's them guys?
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it was pretty coherent...
He said that some people in china see the government as being distinct from themselves (yeah, coherent) and that it is odd that a president with a terrible support rating, in a country where in principle the people choose the leaders, that he is still president. That, too is coherent
No no, I'm pretty sure all 1.3 Billion citizens left their cities and farms and went to tibet to beat down the protesters. All of them. It was a pretty epic thing to watch, actually.
So, they were lied to. Seems pretty natural to me. I mean, if I was a frontier kind of guy, or a politician in the position to make and break treaties, looking to free up some land that some indians had, and didn't have moral problems with lying, why wouldn't I?
It's like saying there's something odd about a Owl eating a rodent. The owl wants food, and has no moral qualms about killing another animal to get that food. Why shouldn't it?
Right makes Right doesn't apply. It's just a natural way of life. The bigger stick or better tactic wins. It isn't saying it's right, it's just saying it is what it is.
I think one of the issues is that it sounds like you're saying it *would* matter if it was his family. As far as ancestors go, family or not family doesn't matter. They're all just dead people with only the faintest connection to us living people.
And it is kind of offensive calling them 100% white. I'm pretty sure they were also 100% European and we can all agree that calling a French guy German might sound kind of weird.
Because it reality it wasn't just white people, it was French people, English people, probably some random dutch people too. To put them all in the same group is just inaccurate.
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I didn't I was to blame for the war in iraq (when I was in highschool mind you), nor did I know I promote conflicts to "my ends". I didn't know I had ends :p
I think you might have a few personal issues with america that you need to work out. The country is not made of george bush clones haha
I don't want you to rape my daughter either.
The more you know *rainbow star goes by*
My god, so many applicable analogies! Which do I trust? *head explodes*
yeah, it's not even a joke. It's very applicable. It would be a reasonable thing to say, unless you think it's funny that kids in africa don't have food either.
while your comment is pretty... shabby, it does bring up a good point. If a planet the size of earth crashed into us, I'm willing to bed that people would die pretty much instantly from many different causes. That being said, there would be no need to feel sympathy for any of the entire planet's population.
there would be no suffering, so parents sad over the deaths of their children, no anything to feel anything about. The only reason we're sympathetic at all is because there are other people left to feel sympathy for.
Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.
Would it be acceptable that instead of half of us just dying that half of us stop reproducing and live out our days while the other half makes sure that their numbers do not increase?
People are dying and you're yelling at people who are effectively doing the same thing you are, posting opinions on slashdot.
Because if you were a truly moral, decent, and intelligent person, you help the man who killed your wife with his groceries.
I already did stop :/
I agree with your sentiment, although I've never been shot at myself, so I don't know if my opinion matters. I certainly wouldn't want my family and friends to worry about me though. It seems like that would be a little selfish.
Maybe they have a heart but just aren't showing it? You're drawing a conclusion without evidence. Humor and sympathy aren't mutually exclusive.
I'm a supposedly educated person. I also think those gifs with stars of david crashing into the twin towers are funny because firstly, they imply the ridiculous notion that Jews were responsible for 9/11 with flying stars of david, and secondly they make fun of and point out the ridiculous nature of stereotypes in general. It's rather unoffensive when presented in such a farcical manner, if you have an open mind and you yourself aren't a racial profiler.
This applies to other funny gifs with stereo types that apply to whatever ethnic, racial, and social groups I may or may not belong to. I just chose that one because it popped into my head.
I think the real point of this "discussion" has lost it's way. I don't believe it's a way of coping, but I also think that people are well within reasonable expectations to make insensitive comments. I for one don't want to live it in a world without people who make fun of horrible tragedies.
/. debates about this very subject...
I also don't want a world without people who get outraged at people who are insensitive. Checks and balances, you know?
I for one make jokes about terrible things, while at other times I feel genuine pain for what happened in the same tragedy. Insensitive humor and sympathy are not mutually exclusive though, and it's important for everyone to understand that, otherwise people get into big
yeah you too buddy. His post is insightful and on topic. And much too long to post here, unfortunately
Who? What? What the heck are you talking about? Who's them guys?
it was pretty coherent... He said that some people in china see the government as being distinct from themselves (yeah, coherent) and that it is odd that a president with a terrible support rating, in a country where in principle the people choose the leaders, that he is still president. That, too is coherent
No no, I'm pretty sure all 1.3 Billion citizens left their cities and farms and went to tibet to beat down the protesters. All of them. It was a pretty epic thing to watch, actually.
So, they were lied to. Seems pretty natural to me. I mean, if I was a frontier kind of guy, or a politician in the position to make and break treaties, looking to free up some land that some indians had, and didn't have moral problems with lying, why wouldn't I?
It's like saying there's something odd about a Owl eating a rodent. The owl wants food, and has no moral qualms about killing another animal to get that food. Why shouldn't it?
Right makes Right doesn't apply. It's just a natural way of life. The bigger stick or better tactic wins. It isn't saying it's right, it's just saying it is what it is.
I think one of the issues is that it sounds like you're saying it *would* matter if it was his family. As far as ancestors go, family or not family doesn't matter. They're all just dead people with only the faintest connection to us living people.
And it is kind of offensive calling them 100% white. I'm pretty sure they were also 100% European and we can all agree that calling a French guy German might sound kind of weird.
Because it reality it wasn't just white people, it was French people, English people, probably some random dutch people too. To put them all in the same group is just inaccurate.