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Originally posted by Xandax
People evolve, cultures change.
"Oh, but it is okay for me to bomb that woman and child because it is our culture to hate....."
nope - dosen't hold water.
Then it effectively was okay and excusable *and* understandeble for the Nazies to act as they did doing the Second World War, for instance towards the Jews, because they were told to hate them, it was their "culture"?
And so on ... |
My point is not that cultural factors retrieve guilt for these acts.
I think that the wrong thing was, as happened in some posts, people were discussing as if CM was responsible for all that destruction and stupidity. He is not. He only told what he thinks. And what he thinks, right of wrong, is a mirror image of the culture he lives in.
Today a train has been blown up in Russia. People think this is a terrorist act. My opinion is that it is wrong to kill. My opinion is that it is even worst to kill inocents. And if I would kill for some thing that happened in my life, I would like to take down only the responsible for my suffering, not the rest.
Well, my point is simple: Suicide is not an option (that's why I havent suiceded last year). Killing is not an option.
That is one of my previous posts. I still think they are not options. But in certain conditions, people kill others. Why is that? In Brazil, revenge is focused - for example, I want to kill him cause he has done that for me. The cultural factor taken us to this. Now, Hamaz people tell I want to kill theyr people, cause they are our disgrace. Guilt never ceases. Just being a member of the enemy comunity is enough to justify a killing. Bingo. Cultural factors.
Not an excuse, but the tip of the problem, thats for sure, and a very important thing to find out how to disarm this, how to disable this. There must be a way, dont you think?
People evolve, cultures change.
To what we need or as we want?
Added this - And sorry, I used your people just as an example. Could have been the Zulus, the Yanomamis, or anyone, never meant that you are still doing this or something.