YorkeDaddy

...YES????? What the **** kind of question is this???

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Chula Vista

Of course. Out of curiosity, why would you even consider it wouldn't?

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fiddler

I was just asking. Sometimes people get a bias opinion when it happens to THEIR country but if the same things happen in other countries they brush it off as the "everyday". Glad to see you do not suffer from this. (And it does still happen just about every day there. It's stupid and horrible and hideous.)

Guybrush

These situations will test people's values and their moral integrity. If your values are not well grounded, they may well be shaken to the core. Maybe someone who's normally against torture thinks he should be tortured. Perhaps someone who would normally oppose the death penalty thinks he should be killed. Perhaps someone who was already angry got a little more hateful.

But how strong is that moral integrity or those values if it takes one bomber for people to abandon them?

I think such situations are also an opportunity for a people to show that there are more important things than revenge and hatred - to show care, forgiveness, tolerance, and that values are not so easily forsaken .. To stay strong in adversity, not give in to hate and show that they are better than the bomber who himself would sentence people to death.

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Chula Vista

I'm far from flag waving. Gotta admit that the fact it happened in my old back yard plays a bit of a role though.

Again, I totally get where you are coming from.

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Frownland

You're right. I'll just wear a confederate flag to represent what America is truly about.

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Janszoon

Very well put. I completely agree.

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fiddler

Of course it does. Something like this has a habit of - like tore said - making clear thinking people go asinine and off the deep end. But if I were to ask some of the more extreme ones the exact same question, it would probably be brushed off as "not important" or otherwise. Did it piss me off? Of course it did. An attack on the people of the United States is a personal attack on me. And I won't claim not to be bias, because I am. But I've also been to Iraq where IEDs on the side of the road are common place. Here it's a tragedy, there it IS part of the everyday.

Chula Vista

To use your own words, of course. Most folks are simply too far removed to have empathy for what is going on in remote parts of the world. Sucks, but it is what it is.

Thank you for your service.

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The Batlord

Well that's alright, then. You can borrow mine, but I'll expect it back. I need it in time for the meeting.

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