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Old 05-17-2015, 12:58 PM   #81 (permalink)
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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.

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Exactly, but the exact same thing happens in their own back yard and they get up in arms.

I do a job like everybody else.
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Old 05-17-2015, 01:02 PM   #82 (permalink)
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Exactly, but the exact same thing happens in their own back yard and they get up in arms.

I do a job like everybody else.
Someone pisses on my neighbor's lawn down the street and I'm not gonna really give a ****. I catch him pissing on my front lawn and I'm gonna get right in his face big time.

Same thing to a degree. Sad but true.
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Old 05-17-2015, 01:07 PM   #83 (permalink)
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Someone pisses on my neighbor's lawn down the street and I'm not gonna really give a ****. I catch him pissing on my front lawn and I'm gonna get right in his face big time.

Same thing to a degree. Sad but true.
Oh, I know, trust me, I know. I told someone that and they swore up and down that the Boston Marathon Bombing had NO similarities what so ever to what's happening in Iraq.
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Old 05-17-2015, 01:08 PM   #84 (permalink)
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Oh, I know, trust me, I know. I told someone that and they swore up and down that the Boston Marathon Bombing had NO similarities what so ever to what's happening in Iraq.
Ignorance is bliss.
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Old 05-17-2015, 01:32 PM   #85 (permalink)
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Well that's alright, then. You can borrow mine, but I'll expect it back. I need it in time for the meeting.
Will you have more than one? I figure you'd wear one too.
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Old 05-17-2015, 05:11 PM   #86 (permalink)
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Well that's alright, then. You can borrow mine, but I'll expect it back. I need it in time for the meeting.
You CAN borrow mine this week, because I have to work on meeting night. No harm no foul.
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Old 05-17-2015, 08:05 PM   #87 (permalink)
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You don't wear it to the meeting, silly. We wear our uniforms.

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You CAN borrow mine this week, because I have to work on meeting night. No harm no foul.
Man, they're letting anyone in these days.
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Old 05-18-2015, 10:24 PM   #89 (permalink)
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It's natural for a people or a nation to feel some sort of hatred towards a bomber, but to act on that hatred seems a little barbaric. Is it important that this guy suffers or that this guy dies? There probably are some reasons why that could be, but I don't think satisfying people's bloodlust is one of them.

I think government's business should be preventing suffering, not causing it. And when the people are faced with a moral crisis, they should be guided, not goaded.
maybe we should be more like the enlightened europeans and give him 25 years of reeducation and then let him loose.
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