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[hawkwing_lb]

With 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?

Comments

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

Amen.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

The more I learn, the more I find myself able to understand the point of view of violent extremism. This is an uncomfortable position.

(Dear Humanity: Please to grow up now and learn how to share and play nicely, kthnx?)

[jennygadget.livejournal.com]

"I'd like to resign from the human race now. Where do I hand in the forms?"

Unfortunately, that office has been downsized due to budget cuts. Forms may may only be handed in every second Tuesday during months that do not end with the letters "y" or "r".

And also, yeah. They were showing clips last night of people cheering and I was like "what? why would anyone do that?" I can't say there wasn't something approaching happiness mixed in what I was feeling when I heard the news, but I was hardly overjoyed enough to take to the streets, waving flags. Mostly, my initial reaction was along the lines of "so this means we can start pulling out now, yes?" /sarcasm

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

He was an unpleasant man who did little to improve the world and much to disimprove it - but the same can be said for so many, many others, many of whom are at this moment drawing large pensions and being paid for speaking tours.

I am resigned to the fact that justice is only possible in a world of ideas.