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Originally Posted by Ghosting sacrificing yourself to kill others makes sense. |
isn't that exactly what happens in war? Exactly what the heros of Dessert
Storm did? Exactly what that yellow ribbon means?
Of course murder and violence is never right, but it is explainable, which is not to say justifiable. There are groups doing terrible things everywhere including both Western and Eastern powers that be. We tend, however, to excuse our own and villify the others.
Talking in binaries and dogmatically will never advance any argument. Ad homminem attacks are the refuge of the weak minded.
Certain Muslims blow people up, certain Jews shoot children, certain Christians blow people up and shoot children. I'm not sure if the Budhists are up to anything, but they might be. The point is that just because certain evil people claim to be a part of a group does not mean that the group is bad or the cause of their evil. Other conditions, such as poverty, political will, and psychological instability play a much greater role than religious texts, to think otherwise betrays a fundamental unwillingness to attempt even a modicum of understanding.
Rather than start a laundry list of bad things that governments/groups of people have done in order to point out some sort of inferiority/superiority hierarchy, maybe we might critically examine all of the evil in the world from a morally consitent point f view. Difficult as that may be, it seems the only reasonable course of action.
If peace is an image you are trying to project, then claim you are a Buddist.
