Yes it does. I care more about my fellow countrymen than I do about others. Just as I care more about my family than I do my coutrymen in toto. Read it in context. The original post implies that I should feel guilty about having my priorities. I don't.
Yes, that's very civilized and intelligent of you. How exactly do you actually do something that is WORSE THAN A HATE-CRIME (like terrorism)? So that's your personal concept of justice, eh?
What the hell is a hate crime? Hell, I didn't even say that what happened was a crime. As far as I am concerned it was an act of war. The world is an anarchic environment. Each state is an individual actor who makes decisions based on self-interest. To believe otherwise is naive. There are no real international laws, other than those that are convenient. And they are broken when it is convenient. The world we live in is the world of all against all (Hobbes). It is world based on competition, and the survival of the fittest. Not some Kumbaya singing, sandal wearing, tree hugging, love fest. People out there want to kill me and mine. I will kill them first if given the chance.
Notice the use of the first person- "I". Because, ultimately, I am responsible. Not my "country" not the "world" not the "corporations", not any of the million other excuses that people use to avoid personal responsibilty. Life is about struggle, and about picking sides. If you don't approve of Microsoft's business practices, run Linux and evangelize. If you don't like terrorists, go kill them, or put them in jail, or give them a big hug and appologize for making them mad. Do what your conscience dictates. I will do what mine dictates. But don't try to cry foul when you are laughed at. And don't be suprised when the enemy takes advantage of your generosity. Compete. Be successfull.
What if a Palestinian terrorist attacks an Israeli civilian? What if one of those african countries invades another and tens of thousands of lives are lost? I see, this is not the same category, right? So basically you're implying that American life is infinitely more important than any other life.
Exactly! You got that idea without too much help. Just as an Arab life is more important to an Arab than a Jew, an American life is more important to me than any other. (And I should feel guilty for believing this huh?)
No that's just what you think of as the real world, if you were brought up in a country where everyone tells you day by day how superior you are.
Actually, being brought up in a world where everybody else complained because of our success made me realize that.;oP
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Whah! Boohoohoo...
"They hate the US because Americans because they stick their noses everywhere it doesn't belong."
We stick our nose in where it doesn't belong, like in Europe in 1941-1945? Or the economic reconstruction of it after the war? But then again, that was our "self-interest". We were trying to prevent the expansion of fascism throughout the world. And then later, we were trying to prevent the expansion of communism. Remember communism? 18 Million Russians killed by Stalin? Hungary 1956? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
Oh that's right, this is propaganda, the Russians never REALLY wanted to invade Checkoslovakia, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, etc... That was all a figment of our Capitalist imaginations. We should have minded our own business and let the MIGHTY (sic) Europeans handle it.
And don't forget the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, and their subsequent experimentation with nerve agents on the Lucky Chinese. We should have stayed home.
Here's a lesson for the kids at home. ALL nations act out of self-interest. Its just that we Americans are better at it than most. Take your sour grapes and go home.
I don't care about these other starving people. These terrorist bastards attacked my countrymen in my country. All that is left is to hunt them down and kill them. The rest is politics to enable to do this one thing. We not only should, we must make the punishment far worse than the crime. We need to say that by attacking us, you have forfeited your right to exist. Period. Full stop. THAT is what it means to live in the real world.
BTW, just for the record, not only do I want them dead, I want them buried in Porcine Fecal Matter just befaore.
Since the iLamp is all skinny and such, maybe the next one will have the Segway gyroscope balancers....AND the force from the spinning can be used to cool the little cantaloupe.;o) Then it could go know what you want to type by the way you lean in your chair.....
But seriously folks....Cool design (I guess) but wouldn't you really just rather have Aqua/Carbon available for Darwin x86?
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That tells us a lot about you.
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Yes it does. I care more about my fellow countrymen than I do about others. Just as I care more about my family than I do my coutrymen in toto. Read it in context. The original post implies that I should feel guilty about having my priorities. I don't.
Yes, that's very civilized and intelligent of you. How exactly do you actually do something that is WORSE THAN A HATE-CRIME (like terrorism)? So that's your personal concept of justice, eh?
What the hell is a hate crime? Hell, I didn't even say that what happened was a crime. As far as I am concerned it was an act of war. The world is an anarchic environment. Each state is an individual actor who makes decisions based on self-interest. To believe otherwise is naive. There are no real international laws, other than those that are convenient. And they are broken when it is convenient. The world we live in is the world of all against all (Hobbes). It is world based on competition, and the survival of the fittest. Not some Kumbaya singing, sandal wearing, tree hugging, love fest. People out there want to kill me and mine. I will kill them first if given the chance.
Notice the use of the first person- "I". Because, ultimately, I am responsible. Not my "country" not the "world" not the "corporations", not any of the million other excuses that people use to avoid personal responsibilty. Life is about struggle, and about picking sides. If you don't approve of Microsoft's business practices, run Linux and evangelize. If you don't like terrorists, go kill them, or put them in jail, or give them a big hug and appologize for making them mad. Do what your conscience dictates. I will do what mine dictates. But don't try to cry foul when you are laughed at. And don't be suprised when the enemy takes advantage of your generosity. Compete. Be successfull.
What if a Palestinian terrorist attacks an Israeli civilian? What if one of those african countries invades another and tens of thousands of lives are lost? I see, this is not the same category, right? So basically you're implying that American life is infinitely more important than any other life.
Exactly! You got that idea without too much help. Just as an Arab life is more important to an Arab than a Jew, an American life is more important to me than any other. (And I should feel guilty for believing this huh?)
No that's just what you think of as the real world, if you were brought up in a country where everyone tells you day by day how superior you are.
Actually, being brought up in a world where everybody else complained because of our success made me realize that.
Whah! Boohoohoo...
"They hate the US because Americans because they stick their noses everywhere it doesn't belong."
We stick our nose in where it doesn't belong, like in Europe in 1941-1945? Or the economic reconstruction of it after the war? But then again, that was our "self-interest". We were trying to prevent the expansion of fascism throughout the world. And then later, we were trying to prevent the expansion of communism. Remember communism? 18 Million Russians killed by Stalin? Hungary 1956? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
Oh that's right, this is propaganda, the Russians never REALLY wanted to invade Checkoslovakia, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, etc... That was all a figment of our Capitalist imaginations. We should have minded our own business and let the MIGHTY (sic) Europeans handle it.
And don't forget the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, and their subsequent experimentation with nerve agents on the Lucky Chinese. We should have stayed home.
Here's a lesson for the kids at home. ALL nations act out of self-interest. Its just that we Americans are better at it than most. Take your sour grapes and go home.
I don't care about these other starving people. These terrorist bastards attacked my countrymen in my country. All that is left is to hunt them down and kill them. The rest is politics to enable to do this one thing. We not only should, we must make the punishment far worse than the crime. We need to say that by attacking us, you have forfeited your right to exist. Period. Full stop. THAT is what it means to live in the real world.
BTW, just for the record, not only do I want them dead, I want them buried in Porcine Fecal Matter just befaore.
Since the iLamp is all skinny and such, maybe the next one will have the Segway gyroscope balancers....AND the force from the spinning can be used to cool the little cantaloupe. ;o) Then it could go know what you want to type by the way you lean in your chair.....
But seriously folks....Cool design (I guess) but wouldn't you really just rather have Aqua/Carbon available for Darwin x86?