We can't take the high road without action. Yes it's nice we have this knowledge now. But if you have knowledge and opportunity, and don't use it, you really aren't any better are you? You're just indifferent. And that goes double when you can't even see you've made those mistakes too. And could make them again if we allowed ourselves to slip back into a dark age (Which looks like a lot of people want, given the rise of evangeicalism). 'But for the grace of god, so go we. Then the hypocracy kicks in.
At least that's the way I see it. I roundly condemn the actions, and have mentioned many times over other threads that we need to be strickter with countries like Saudi or even cease to be their ally. And that's a point I'm trying to make. We're not innocent in this global tragedy. And we're certainly not better because we have a better life in a nicer country at a particular time of history. We're just lucky.
And I was never saying their culture should get a free pass. I was just saying, 'hey guys we did the same thing. Instead of finger pointing, lets all realize we're connected, we're causing each others problems, all our societies have all made the same mistakes, and that while we're here and now in this time and space, lets help another culture get through it.'
If the US could try a 'regime change' on Iraq to 'liberate the people.' why not do that to Saudi too? Not saying that's the answer here, in fact not as all, but at least it's effort. They could put sanctions on them too, or a whole host of things to stick up for human rights.
Of course we all know why that doesn't happen. And that's the problem. People don't really care. They get involed on a message board and make themselves feel better by saying all the 'right things' and forget about it until the next headline comes.
If you really want to think you are better, e-mail your representatives about human rights and the counties we let get away with them.
Heck, start in your own backyard. E-mail the reps about the growing posibility we could have Sharia law here.
We're not better until we do something about it (or at least try)
Knowledge with out action is a sin (and I use sin in a generic sense).
It would be like being stuck in a snow drift, and a bunch of people crowd around you and tell you how sorry it is, and say 'yup, you are stuck,' when all you need is one or two other people just to help you push.
If you have the knowledge and don't act on it, you can't claim to be that far above the crime, especially when you've committed the same crime in the past.
“Of course we must fear evil men, but there is another evil that we must fear more… and that is the indifference of good men.”
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