A Curious Girl: Collateral Damage

I'm banging my head against a brick wall. Actually, that would be less painful.

I posted a few musings on bombing Iraq on YouThink last night. Actually I was mainly talking about people's attitudes rather than the actual issue at hand, but in the end it degenerated into a debate mainly between me and another guy. *sigh* it was so depressing. I'd like to think that he was being sarcastic but unfortunately not (he'd made that fairly clear a few posts earlier).

He said: Making sure that I live in peace and that my children and family live in peace is damn well worth more than Iraqi citizens.

I said: 'Please, have a little compassion. I can't believe that being in a much *safer* position than most Iraqi citizens, that you could consider your security something worth killing them for. Are their lives worth less than your security?'

He said: 'Hell yeah. If your country posed a threat against our security, we'd take you out too. So behave.'

Earlier on, someone else contributed, 'I fully consider my peace of mind and the knowledge that my family is safe, a thousand times more important that someone I've never met and never will.'

Does everyone feel like this?

How can you consider people who are innocent and merely living in the wrong place at the wrong time to be a just target for protecting our 'security'? Why does a country being a threat to our 'security' justify us being a worse, more powerful 'threat' to their 'security'? We think that at some point they may bomb us, so that justifies bombing them, with our advanced military and resources?

After all, all the civilians in Iraq are merely collateral (we don't know them and we never will, they'll never be a part of our lives so who cares about them?)

Random word for today: Frustration

<< last entry ... next entry >>
top of page

Give food for free.