reply to post by DaleGribble
Yeah, you're right life isn't fair, but that doesn't mean you have to make it more fair for yourself or less fair for others.
That's why we still do business and silently hope that things will change at some point.
Making life better for ones own people starts by cleaning up ones own camp... not by rectifying others'. Regardless of what ones government wants you
to believe happend in certain situations.
Edit for deeper expressing myself: And yes I do know that a statement like that would seem wrong when we look at how everything is going in the
middle east.
But then I think we should look upon it like this (
Very very black and white I'm affraid):
Purely democratic countries = grownups
Dictatorships/some kind of religious or monarch rule = kids
Now what I wanna say with this is that you can apply the talk of life being fair or not fair to countries like Denmark and the US, but in the case of
these countries so infected by the religious views of few people who just happen to hold the power or hatred to a neighbouring country we can't go
slapping them in their face or bottom for being bad bad boys or girls.
We have to approach them on a level they can actually comprehend.
Basicly what Bush and Co. have been doing lately is trying to take the powerdrill out of the kids hands because the kid can't contain the
consequences but the kid is going "No!" with a sly smirk on his face.
And one thing that is certain is that you can never teach anyone anything by brute force other than "that's how we resolve situations like
this".
If you slap you kid for being bad the next moment he's slapping a classmate because that's how he learnt to resolve situations at home.
If you slap your dog because it doesn't seem to want to learn not to pee on the carpet you're making things worse... is it because of the carpet? is
it because I musn't pee? Why am I being hit?
Information and education on a basic level (positive reinforcement) that could actually enlighten these people or the people who serve under them is
the way. Even if basics mean going waaaay back.
No kid is so bad that you can't relate to it in some little way and find a way where suddenly empathy goes both ways...
[edit on 4/11/07 by flice]
[edit on 4/11/07 by flice]