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Originally Posted by mykalberta
It depends what you believe.
Do you believe that its insane for a pregnant woman to walk into busy street cafe and blow herself up?
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Sure that's insane. But I think it's equally insane to be worried that a suicide bomber is going to erode my democratic and liberal rights in Canada. Just because someone blows themselves up doesn't mean Canada takes one step closer towards religious fundamentalism (if anything it helps push people away from it imo). Britain has dealt with suicide/terror bombings for a long time and they're liberal-democracy seems to be intact and thriving.
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I would hope you would say yes, the problem lies in that the other guys dont think its so insane. Its like a game of touch football, as soon as someone crosses the line with a hit they have to be either dealt with by telling them to get lost or by popping them in the mouth so they know the consequences of thier actions or you have to quit (ie give up).
In this real game of touch football, I for one refuse to quit, and if making that stand means supporting some POS cartoon that I would normally give no more attention then some other BS cartoon, then so be it.
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I suppose if the clash of civilizations can be equated to a football game, then our team (Western Civilization) is kicking the crap out of every other team on the planet. By about 1000 times. As far as I'm concerned we should be worrying more about how to be 'good winners'... we've already dominated the economic facets of the world, we consume and produce hundreds of times that of other societies. I don't see any reason to rub the fact that we're dominating the struggle into the faces of the 'other' sides. Can't we win with some class?