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Originally Posted by Itse
Do those images disturb me emotionally? Yes.
(Not much though. I see death on my FB feed all the time these days.)
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So you are desensitized.
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Does it stop me from rationally accepting that what I'm seeing is "normal" in a war? No.
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It is not normal in war. At no point during my training did we ever cover off shooting unarmed people in the back of the head.
Maybe you are confusing war and war crime.
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You seem to be making an "argument" that's basicly "people should react to this picture the way I do".
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I would hope that most empathetic/civilized people would find those pictures repugnant.
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You also seem disproportionaly outraged by the fact that I don't consider an act to be more evil just because I see a picture of it actually happening.
For me, "evil" is fundamental, it's something that disturbs me on every level, most of all rationally. I don't think it's even possible to make a valid "that is evil" statement when you are so emotional that you can't think straight.
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I can think straight, I don't understand how you can differentiate between shooting a person the back of the head to kill them and "locking then in a cage" to die. Both are evil disgusting things.
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I suggest you take a deep breath and consider the possibility that you are letting your disgust and even hate and fear get the best of you. That's the stuff that breeds single-minded, irrational behaviour and stupid political decisions on the grand scale. It's what feeds cycles of violence.
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If hating to see people get murder is irrational, the yeah I am.
Perhaps the classifying and dithering over different levels/kinds of evil and evil doers allows/facilitates these events.