Woow.. You turned this discussion into another in few lines, nice. A bit of clarification for the last paragraph, please?Originally Posted by Ironside
P.S. I'm not saying I support it.
Woow.. You turned this discussion into another in few lines, nice. A bit of clarification for the last paragraph, please?Originally Posted by Ironside
Probably, but that wouldn't sound as well in a speech. A true politican (see my sig).
The problem for an fanatic idealist is that you'll always end up with the cause lost on the way. And that is among the most dangerous leader that exist, friend or foe alike. The utopian society will always be one thing away, again and again, and suddenly your slaughtering your own people in drowes.
To put an example. The easiest way to resolve the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and getting peace is to genocide the Palestinians. But despite this abhorrent and extreme meassurement it would still not bring peace. The deeply upset neighbours would have to be eliminated and so on, and what about those who will complain at the homefront? They would be "silenced" etc (Israel would never even be able to start the first step in this process though). So in the end, the goal isn't reach, but a whole lots of human lives has been wasted on nothing.
And even if successful, what do you think Islam would look like if the suecide bombers won and the world was converted to Islam? What exactly makes you think that the bastardiation of Islam would revert back into itself when the goal is achived? When it already has been so "successful"?
P.S. I'm not saying I support it.
"Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much."
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton.
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