lordjedi said:Right. I didn't read about it, but that doesn't mean I didn't care about it. Why should I waste my time reading about something that I can already guess about? I heard about a terrorist attack on Mumbai. Should I go read about it or just assume it's the same terrorists as usual? Personally, since it's in that region, I'll assume it's the usual. And it turns out it was. No point in wasting my time reading that some terrorists were targeting Americans. Same old same old. To me, it's nothing new and only serves to continually reinforce the point. That point is that we weren't being attacked because of our President and his policies. We were being attacked because of our beliefs.
I would've been shocked if it had been some westerners attacking Muslims. That would've made me read even more about it. As it was, it's nothing new.
It's not that I don't care about the people that were attacked. I absolutely care about them. What I don't care to hear is the reasoning for attacking them (based on where they were from). I don't give a shit what reason some damn terrorist gives for attacking these people. I care about the response and what happened to the people that got attacked. The response wasn't reported much. Just the dead and wounded numbers. I can either continually get pissed every time it happens and go on a rant and rave (kinda like right now) about how the assholes need to be hunted down and killed or I can just not talk about it. I prefer the later.
So, you believe, then, that all your actions are completely in line with a supreme model of daily perfection? I understand you're a person that generally take things seriously, but, if you were to honestly analyze every action and attitude of your life, you don't believe that there is even one tiny change that you could make with yourself to potentially be even better? :)
Supposedly "caring" in our heart of hearts about rightly apposing terrorism is well and good, but if that caring doesn't really affect our most substantial actions for the better, then what good is it? I think that we don't really, truly care, in the fullest sense possible for human beings, because then our actions would be very different. If we were all actually acting with such purity I think our effect on the world would be much greater, don't you?
I'm not saying the world is an easy place to figure out, and I'm not even sure where we would start acting better, but when I honestly look at myself, I know I'm not working with pure motives or pure judgments. To automatically assume I have achieved perfection when it comes to caring about people that face the evils of this world is not something I can do.