Message from @Arch-Fiend
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This one's good
I seen that one overused, I don't think it's a good example
first of all, because more than 50% of muslims agree with Sharia Law
so the 10% value is too low
also, that argument can be used for an authoritarian state
if you just change the example to anything else
If only we could convince every sjw to eat a handful of those m&ms. We could Thanos half the 'States.
or at least a quarter.
Anyway, we should try to convert the Muslims that want to and protect them from the Extremists....
Played that game before, had a shitty ending.
Convert them to what? Christianity? So they can bastardize it and strengthen the old testiment version of tradition?
anti-immigrationists should never have to stoop as long as complaining about terrorism, its just a gateway drug to losing the argument and the slow transition of a public that understands the problems with immigration, multiculturalism, and the brain drain; to a population that only thinks a reason to control their borders is to keep out people who will hurt them, in this mostly peaceful time we live in
Well I'm just saying conversion isnt the therapy. Western culture failed at it through draconian resolve and little regard for life back in medieval times, and the Muslim world isn't far from that now. They'd make the same mistakes we did.
we had more reguard for life in the medieval than we do now
people care about suicide and suffering now out of an almost purely mechanical responce to something as a culture we see as "bad" rather than any actual thought or consern about it
look at the way we react to mass death. the boston massicre sparked a revolution in the 18th century, now you have to kill x20 more people and take out 2 monuments in order to get the united states just to go to war with a pile of sand for profitiering and waste even more of our lives
Does that mean we have less regard for life? Starting a ln armed conflict will result in mass casualties any way you slice it and there is no guarantee you will not wake a sleeping gaint and lose. Perhaps we are more resistance to enemies trying to gloat people into a conflict by using dirty tactics in favor of less violent routes.
i actually think the regard for life in growing in the united state right now because we MIGHT actually resist going to war again in the middle east when its inevitbly put on our table again
politicians might not but we the people might
though its important to note a regard for life isint just about wanting to stay alive, its also about doing something with that life, not being callous to death while also being couragious enough to live in the face of death
Ever heard the saying "A single death is a tragedy; a Million deaths is a statistic"?
with the 24/7 news cycle it applies very much all the time today, we're surrounded by "millions" of deaths on a daily basis, and the human brain isn't adapted to handle and empathize with numbers that large
it doesn't mean we care more or care less about deaths than we used to, just that see more of them now and can't mentally handle it all
"you say a truck load of soldiers is gonna blow up and everyone is fine because it's all part of the plan. But say one little grandmother is gonna die and everyone loses their minds"
@Crow isnt that a quote from Stalin?
It is I recall
And it still rings true
Empathy is harder to achieve when the subject is only a number on paper
Of course he would say something like that. Big brain
I mean, its kinda his place to know that
He was responsible for tens of millions of deaths
So he was probably asked thatquestion