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September 10, 2004
Killing in the name of...
Speaking of sickening, but several orders of magnitude worse, is the following story of Chechen/Russian conflict, in particular the recent school bombing. There are so many things wrong here aside from the senseless killing.
326 dead, and over 700 injured. This article discusses what happens when a terrorist group is in the hands of someone who truly places no value on the value of a life other than his own. More on that later. It seems as though the leader of the group responsible for the killing detonated the waist bombs of two women who disagreed with taking children as hostages. Earlier, someone else expressed resevations about taking the school. That man was shot on the spot. I've seen this type of thing in movies and TV, and I guess it happens in real life as well. But Jesus. Killing your own people? Killing CHILDREN?
Again, the leader has zero regard for anything. He seems to enjoy killing, and the revolution is probably just a cover for his homicidal ways. But there are no far-reaching policies that are truly made for the good of humanity. Some are made specifically to cause misery to people, or to bring profit to a few and any cost. Thousands die, although it is often over time. Are these people all that different? Are we all that different for that matter? How many of us would choose an action that would make us filthy rich if it meant the lives of hundreds of people in some far away land over, say, five years? I think that a great many of us would choose that, more than we like to think.
Posted by JonasParker at September 10, 2004 12:16 PM
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