... perhaps it IS selfish to worry about your own family members over other strangers, but it is NOT selfish to worry about your family members in the first place... ...
Well, it's just, people have already died, and I honestly don't feel like I'm going to cry for them, because I didn't know them. But some else did know them; for someone else, that person was important, but to me, they're just a number. I don't like that feeling, when I only vaguely realize the number is a human life, but it doesn't actually register with me. I don't know... I'm still sometimes feel the world should stop turning whenever someone dies. It just boggles me how it continues on, everyone forgets and lives on. But I'm still trying to understand the concept of death.
1) I seriously doubt it. That seems like too far fetched a conspiracy. Care to explain the bombings in Israel? Don't tell me that's a conspiracy by Israel to gain greater sympathy, no one is dumb enough to try that
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1) It didn't occur to me that the bombings in Israel, or at least some of them, might be staged, but there is no reason as to why not. It wouldn't be the first time that a government has decided to kill some of its own people, especially ones whose loss wouldn't matter much anyway, in order to achieve a greater good, such as, in this case, blaming the other side for wanting to delay peace talks. It's not "dumb", and it's happened plenty of times before, in other countries
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1) Yeah, I know it's happened... I don't remember much about it, but wasn't there some incident in which the US gassed (chemical gasses) a boat of its own to test the gas? Anyhoo, it's very Machiavellian to stage a bombing, but it still strikes me as dumb, because there are enough bombings to not need to stage any of one's own...
2) At the moment, I'm completely against shapes in the clouds, because of my English teacher, who pulls out the most random stuff out of poetry and then proves its true. I noticed about the name of the group in the website changed with the source--I'm wondering about that...
3) BLANK!
4) I guess dying suddenly is less stressful, but I think the value of enjoying a full life (okay, providing you enjoyed it. If not, well, tough luck) exceeds the stress of knowing you will die (soon, that is). And yes, it is selfless committing siucide for a cause, but at the same time, it is selfish by bringing other people into your cause when they don't want to be.
1) There really are no terrorists. A single person, working mostly alone, armed with less than $100,000, some intelligence and a bit of conviction, could easily cause a huge amount of damage to a large city like Philadelphia, PA. The fact that such stuff hasn't happened is really less about increased security, and more about there not being any terrorists. The ones who caused 9/11 were a team put together by mostly-jewish neoconservatives, high up in the US government, for the purpose of Israel gaining a greater foothold in the Middle East
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To alleviate potential confusion, the above is my first comment on this page, with the time of "01:02", and is the replacement for the deleted comment, which was essentially the same, but had one or more problems, which I was in the middle of fixing, when Jasmine started replying, with her unaware that it had been deleted. Jasmine's reply to the original, now-deleted comment has the time of "01:05". There was no practical difference in content between the current one, and the deleted one. So, yeah, that clears it up.
It irks me that I can't edit comments, only original posts. It makes me want to create a post, in my LJ, and simply comment here with the URL. I could have put all of my comments from here, into a single post in my LJ, with each one being numbered, replaced here with that one URL, and the matching number. That makes it a bit harder, but I would be able to go back to edit as much as I like. Alternately, I could just become smarter, and then I would never have to edit after hitting "Submit".
well, i see it like this: though we may not be affected by terrorist attacks (i.e. - 9/11) directly, it is the idea that some bastard went into our country and blew up a bunch of innocent people (even if a few weren't innocent). A bunch of people die everyday in every part of the world, but the fact that an excessive number of people who may have lived another twenty or thirty years had their lives cut short because some decided to be evil. Example: the holocaust may just have been a bunch of people dying, but the fact that there were so many people all killed because some German bastards decided to be horrible makes it more than a bunch of deaths. People who could have done great things to benefit humanity were all killed, men, women, and children, because someone was malicious. Same with terrorism. If an arab decides to blow up a bus in Israel, a subway in London, or a skyscraper in New York, it is NOT just a bunch of people dying, it is a unifying event that arouses a hell of a lot of anger. One of my good friends moved to
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1) Most people, when given a chance to live another 20 or 30 years, will, on average, be highly unlikely to achieve any great things to benefit humanity
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1) Everyone's life is precious to themselves; even if they didn't contribute to humanity, they had a right to live, and may have affected their little world
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1) Not everyone cares about their own life to the point of it being considered "precious", and there is no inalienable right to live. These are both fallacies resulting from persistent social constructs
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perhaps it IS selfish to worry about your own family members over other strangers, but it is NOT selfish to worry about your family members in the first place...
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I don't know... I'm still sometimes feel the world should stop turning whenever someone dies. It just boggles me how it continues on, everyone forgets and lives on. But I'm still trying to understand the concept of death.
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2) At the moment, I'm completely against shapes in the clouds, because of my English teacher, who pulls out the most random stuff out of poetry and then proves its true. I noticed about the name of the group in the website changed with the source--I'm wondering about that...
3) BLANK!
4) I guess dying suddenly is less stressful, but I think the value of enjoying a full life (okay, providing you enjoyed it. If not, well, tough luck) exceeds the stress of knowing you will die (soon, that is). And yes, it is selfless committing siucide for a cause, but at the same time, it is selfish by bringing other people into your cause when they don't want to be.
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It irks me that I can't edit comments, only original posts. It makes me want to create a post, in my LJ, and simply comment here with the URL. I could have put all of my comments from here, into a single post in my LJ, with each one being numbered, replaced here with that one URL, and the matching number. That makes it a bit harder, but I would be able to go back to edit as much as I like. Alternately, I could just become smarter, and then I would never have to edit after hitting "Submit".
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