So now they aren't even just bad people in your eyes, but subhuman? Is there some viral challenge out there in the internet to see just how fast and how deeply one can demonize others?
Amino acids - RNA - DNA - enclosed DNA - protocells - cells - cellular colonies - multicellular creatures with specialized tissues.
Countries have always done that and do that now. How come we only care about moral outrage when they attack us or threaten our money? I don't question that bad guys should be punished, only why innocent people should be punished only after we feel personally offended by it. We didn't exactly rush to kill these guys, either Japanese or Italian or German, Ken. We sat on it, relished in it, until we were personally inconvenienced. Had we cared at the START of the war instead of waiting until nearly the end of it, maybe we wouldn't have to burn clothing patterns into people's skins and kill them painfully and slowly for things most of them didn't do. We created Muslim terrorists. We created Native resistance. We created ALL of our monsters, Ken. Our own current President idolizes dictators for "strength" and can't stand to be in the room with democratically elected people who don't kowtow to him. There we are, pointing out specks in the eyes of others, and ignoring the entire forests' worth of beams in our own. War is the option for the intellectually lazy and the greedy. Diplomacy and economics are insanely powerful tools, but they require more elbow grease, so we don't tend to use them. We have been fighting someone for nearly our entire history as a nation, including the decades prior to becoming an independent one. THAT, dear readers, is why we tolerate the violence in the bible: we drench our flag in its image every day.
Not sure if we ever agree, but a to the men on this one.
