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May. 2nd, 2011 12:55 pmWith regard to the triumphalist celebrations of death being carried on in all the new outlets I've bothered to check today:
That's disgusting, people. Have some sense of shame. Killing someone, regardless of what he has or has not done, should never being an occasion for celebration. Killing someone in an act of political theatre, on the soil of another sovereign nation -
I know what that was called when the IRA did that, and the fact that it's governments doing it now as well doesn't make it any more right.
Maybe it's a necessary evil. But if this is justice, then there are several thousands of civilians killed in the last decade - tens of thousands, actually, and hundreds of thousands if one includes those whose death or displacement took place as an indirect consequence of military action - who also deserve justice.
The scales don't balance. They never will.
I'd like to resign from the human race now. Where do I hand in the forms?
That's disgusting, people. Have some sense of shame. Killing someone, regardless of what he has or has not done, should never being an occasion for celebration. Killing someone in an act of political theatre, on the soil of another sovereign nation -
I know what that was called when the IRA did that, and the fact that it's governments doing it now as well doesn't make it any more right.
Maybe it's a necessary evil. But if this is justice, then there are several thousands of civilians killed in the last decade - tens of thousands, actually, and hundreds of thousands if one includes those whose death or displacement took place as an indirect consequence of military action - who also deserve justice.
The scales don't balance. They never will.
I'd like to resign from the human race now. Where do I hand in the forms?
