First of, I do notice the posts of those that share similar opinions as I do. I just don't comment on them, though, because I devote my posts to those, that are standing in for other views. I also respect these other perspectives, but I don't share them. All I do is trying to spark a little empathy in at least someone. I do not intend to insult anyone.
What many of you guys seem to oversee is this: Osama Bin Laden did not personally kill anyone of the victims of 9/11. He wasn't carrying out the actions that led to the death of thousands of people. It is very likely that he was resposbile that these actions took place, but I highly doubt it was him alone who was resposible. Osama Bin Laden did most certainly not rule AQ like a monarch or anything. I strongly believe that there's a sort of "government" (if you could call it like that) in AQ that decides what actions are to be carried out and what not. Osama Bin Laden was most likely just a (or rather the) respresentive of AQ. So it is in fact wrong to say that he killed thousands of people. Because he did not. He was the respresantive of an (politcal !) organisation that is resonsible for actions that led to the death of thousands of people. There is a differece here.
Also, Osama Bin Laden was no "monster" or "super villain". He was a human. And humans are not black and white. Just think about yourselves. You are not only workers or only students or only Americans or whatever. You are so much more. You are friends, you are lovers, you are partens, you are children, you are members of PZC, you are.... . You take many, many different roles in live. Every human does, because that is how society (and in great parts the human brain) works. Osama Bin Laden was not only the respresentive of AQ, he was not only some (islamist ?) fundamentalist/extremist. He was, for example, also a father. And he could not have been the worst at that, to say the least, given he accepted that his son did not want to be part of AQ/terrorism anymore. There's not many parents that allow and support that their children live different (moral) concepts than they do. Not many in fact.
So does this make things any different? Osama Bin Laden was at least partly responsible for the death of thousands of people. For that, he had to be brought to justice. But this justice should not have been murder. It should not have been torture either. No human has the right, and no human can justify, to do harm to another human. Not even if that other human was a murderer (or resposible for murder). Try to apply the easiest ethic rules you know. Just take the golden rule, for example. Would you want yourself to be sentenced to death? No, rather not. How are you justified in putting death penalty on someone else? Do you feel justfied in killing because someone else killed? How? It has already been quoted earlier in some post, but Gandhi got it right: An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.
You can not justfiy these actions. Not out of an urge or revenge either. Try to look at the big picture. What kind of society do you want to be part of?
Ideed, nothing brings so much hatred cruelty and murder to this world like the "good cause". And you'd think that the "good" would want to get rid of harted, cruelty and murder. Do you consider cruelty, hatred and murder good? Than why do you support it? Because others (on your and the other side) do so, too? How does that justify anything?
One last thing: I also have empathy for those, that are cheery about Osama Bin Laden's death. I can feel where you are coming from. But empathy is something that has to be applied to everyone. If it isn't, it's hypocracy. Thus this, which could be misread for "sympathy" for Bin Laden - I certainly don't have that - is rather empathy. And empathy I can find within me for anyone (at least that's an ideal I want to live).
Really, why are so many people so blind with harted? What in the world did they do to you, to make such haters out of you?
Edited by Sheik91, 03 May 2011 - 03:24 PM.
