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Quote serial thriller at 07 Jul 2014 11.28am
Quote Red-Blue-Yellow at 07 Jul 2014 11.11am
For what it's worth: Everything in moderation would be a good watch word for a sane planet...but we humans are prone to taking things too far and seeing things in terms of absolutes, we pervert logic,science, even 'common sense', for our own ends; which usually only amount to greed and lust motivated by ignorance, fear of 'the other' and our impotence in the face of natural forces and our own mortality.
We set our arbitrary measures on what is 'extreme' on either side, then kid ourselves that there is some mathematical mid-point we can work out and say that's what we should do. Take your point about Colonialism and the Native Americans. I assume you didn't, but someone could suggest the extremities on offer are: no Colonialism, or extinction of a whole race. Thus the moderate position may be said to be moderate Colonialism, but were China to march troops in to Parliament and declare that we were now under their benevolent rule, I imagine the reaction on HOL would not be 'oh well, at least they acted in moderation'. Back to the thread point, I find the whole thing f*cking depressing. It's like Islam is some new idea which has only just found credence and is now going to take over the world, rape your kids and punch your wife in the face. It's been around for millennia and, like other ideologies, had and has some nutters connected to it, but actually on the whole it's also done a lot of good and the only person suffering from you pissing your knickers over it is yourself. Thanks for that.....but I think you've gone a touch extreme on the moderation....if you see what I mean! The real point is that we've had instructive teachings about loving and caring for each other from Buddha, Christ, Mohammed etc. yet have managed to turn them into creeds of hate and exploitation.
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