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Originally Posted by Snakeeye
I think that is nothing more than a moral superiority complex.
While the situation behind the killings are different, how can we sit here and claim to be more enlightened when we are killing eachother for no reason at all?
All examples are nothing more than heinous crimes of depravity commited by one person on another. The reasoning behind all of them are just excuses.
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I disagree completely. The barbaric acts of public hangings to instill fear in the public for trivial things such as a woman showing her ankle in public, are far from just "excuses".
Random acts of violence are an unavoidable occurrence across cultures. However, uncivilized behavior like hanging a 15 year old boy for carrying US bills in the name of religion or politics is found in the sectors of the world were there is no civil order, where the people are oppressed and where societal advancement is halted by the powerful few in the name of some "Allah" or other relgious being.