"Hatter" <Hatter23@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> skrev i en meddelelse
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May 21, 8:03 am, gudl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> On 21 Maj, 03:17, Sleepalot <sleep...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>> And possibly you have made unjustified assumptions about me. I say
>> possibly because I do not really know what those assumptions are;
>> after all you only implied something negative about me. In the
>> meantime the actual issue has been ignored. My opinion is that what
>> the soldiers did was gratuitously offensive and guaranteed to make
>> their job both more difficult and dangerous. I will also specify that
> >I think much worse things have been done all over the world and
> >throughout history, however I do not see where I have said anything
> >that implies otherwise; can you point out where I did?- Hide quoted
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>In other words, just because the native beliefs are stupid, and they
>are savages, doesn't justfy you mocking and offending them when you
>and your men can be quite easily killed by said savages in your sleep.
>It that's basic.
That is the practical point. There is also the fact that the soldiers
were
very likely Christian and were there because their Commander in Chief
thought their Christian duty required it, i.e. their beliefs are equally
stupid and (at the very least) potentially just as savage. There is also
the question of the typical arrogance of a powerful, technologically
advanced country totally incapable of wondering how it would feel if they
were being "saved" by a foreign army that treated them with contempt while
insisting that they were friends.
Hatter
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