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I came across this piece on Scott Adam's blog and found it quite interesting. Thought others here might find it interesting too:
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/133406477506/global-gender-war#_=_
So if you are wondering how men become cold-blooded killers, it isn't religion that is doing it. If you put me in that situation, I can say with confidence I would sign up for suicide bomb duty. And I'm not even a believer. Men like hugging better than they like killing. But if you take away my access to hugging, I will probably start killing, just to feel something. I'm designed that way. I'm a normal boy. And I make no apology for it.
Now consider the controversy over the Syrian immigrants. The photos show mostly men of fighting age. No one cares about adult men, so a 1% chance of a hidden terrorist in the group – who might someday kill women and children – is unacceptable. I have twice blogged on the idea of siphoning out the women and small kids from the Caliphate and leaving millions of innocent adult men to suffer and die. I don't recall anyone complaining about leaving millions of innocent adult males to horrible suffering. In this country, any solution to a problem that involves killing millions of adult men is automatically on the table.
If you kill infidels, you will be rewarded with virgins in heaven. But if you kill your own leaders today – the ones holding the leash on your balls – you can have access to women tomorrow. And tomorrow is sooner.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday November 22 2015, @11:22PM
It's not very useful to me here because I am talking about blame and personal responsibility.
And I am speaking of cause and effect. It bugs me when people can dismiss interminable problems that affect innocent people, such as terrorist attacks or collateral damage or institutional law breaking (such as unconstitutional asset forfeiture) from the US War on Drugs on the basis that it is a personal responsibility thing for which some people remain forever irresponsible and we don't need to care, no matter how much harm is done.
(Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Sunday November 22 2015, @11:57PM
institutional law breaking (such as unconstitutional asset forfeiture) from the US War on Drugs
In those cases, government thugs are at fault for enforcing and creating those laws and policies. The individual is at fault for not following those unjust laws, but I think they are good for not doing so. The government thugs are doing the real harm. Everyone is at fault for their own actions, but not everyone's actions are harmful.