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Originally posted by taxwonk
I don't disagree with the notion that it would be good if we did something. I don't even necessarily disagree with your statement that we could do something if we had the will. But where do we draw the line? I think we have to draw it somewhere.
After all, You have genocide of one form or another or massive repression of ethnic or social minorities going on in parts of India, Pakistan, China, Mexico, Sudan, Chad, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Niger, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Indonesia, all of the Middle East, Chechnya, Croatia, Serbia, Tibet, Brazil, Turkey, Cyprus, Korea, and too many other places to list. Surely we can't stop it all.
Where, Bilmore, where?
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We can't stop it all, now, en masse, because through our failure of will, we've let it happen over the years everywhere. Had we hit these problems when they started, (a not-too-expensive proposition, actually, given some of the venues), it would have been spread over time.
Had we, years ago, taken a strong stand against bullies killing innocents, I think the threat we would present might have even kept a few of these from happening in the first place.
I can't seem to seperate this from the more basic concept - I see a guy severely beating up a kid across the street, I cross the street and make him stop. (It's a safe model, for the moment, as there is no bully we can't beat, really.) To argue that the kid isn't my responsibility seems craven.
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