10-02-2004, 08:05 AM
Quote:For a lot of 'onlookers' far away from the places of turmoil, it's nothing unusual to be critical about the stories of militancy and the awfulness of revenge that invariably get huge coverage in the media<b>. However, expressing the importance of rationality during a comfortable living room conversation is easy enough especially as long as one hasn't been violated or brutalised personally. If any of these people saw their own loved ones being tormented or butchered before their eyes in their own homes, would they still feel as rational and composed towards their violators ? </b>Surely most of them wouldn't regardless of the situation ... and that's but natural. This is a basic trend of human psychology which is true of every society in the world.
Quote:Caring for humanity becomes genuine only when sympathy & concern are expressed and implemented for every oppressed or suffering soul without any ethnic or political discrimination. It was heart wrenching to see so many children at the school gymnasium at Beslan with their hands behind their backs. It has been just as disturbing and painful to watch the images on television of the little boys and girls in Iraq between the ages of 4 and 8, with their tiny hands above their shoulders, their faces filled with horror and helplessness .. watching the heavily armed coalition soldiers storming into their homes, blindfolding the adult members of their families and taking them away in handcuffs, some never to return. Not to mention those hundreds ( if not thousands) of young children who have been killed or maimed by the widespread indiscriminate bombings carried out by the occupying forces in the recent Iraq war. <b>We have heard much about those 1,000 US soldiers who have been killed in Iraq since the war began. But we hear little or nothing about the 12,000 civilians who have lost their lives during the past 17 months. </b>
A very interesting article, the above quotes and sections i highlighted touched me the most. What does everyone else think? Megadeath? I have many views on this but just wanted to highlight the above sections for now.