Misha wrote:
Zad wrote:
Misha wrote:
The value of distinctions in numbers is open to discussion, but distinctions in intentions do blur. Would Stalin be much kinder if he had 100.000 people executed in stead of 20 milion? I'd call him less capable.
He'd be much less of an evil fuck, though. In the end, it's the people killed that matter more. Whites? "Tragedy. What an evil shit," etc. Poor brown people? "Meh. Pass the sugar..."
The world is much more racist than we like to think.
Tragedy is both personal and collective, yet the collective sense is only small, and doesn't grow a lot when in the larger numbers. You can't sum up the individual part of tragedy, since there's no one that can take the whole of it on his shoulders.
At you and at hellraiser_xes (what's your real name?):
I have never said that Israel is blameless. Sure, in an ideal world no-one would be killed, and guilt-ridden leftist metalheads such as us would not have to torment ourselves imagining what the families of dead people feel.
BUT, through international law, Israel has been set up as a Jewish state. It was promptly invaded by it's neighbours, and more or less since then has been at a state of war with at least one of them. Should those who sacrifice their own lives to take others go unpunished? Do you want me to start posting about the victims of suicide bombings? Innocent children crippled because some walking abortion has had his sexual urges supressed to the point that he's willing to commit mass murder for seventy imaginary virgins? These people are fucking scum, and if I argued that Israel would be doing no wrong in systematically gassing the shitstains there would be more than a grain of truth in it.
But I don't. I feel just as bad when Palestinians die as you all do, or pretend to. And there will probably never be peace there, and yes, these fools who need an imaginary friend to put all their troubles on are the cause of it all. All that the rest of us can do is watch from the sideline and hope that reason wins in the end. Yes, Israel kill, and yes, Palestinians kill. There is a difference at the end of the day, and you both know it.