Thursday, July 24, 2014

On recent events of late

Violence is never acceptable. Be it in Ukraine or in Gaza, it only does harm. Killing people in retaliation for killing one or a few persons or to fulfill your hubristic nationalist ego is pointless. Sure you can take down your intended target, but at what cost? What good will it do to your cause to shoot down a civilian airliner with almost 300 people on it, all of whom had nothing to do with your dispute? Why do you feel the need to launch rockets on a daily basis into Israel? Why do you feel obligated to deliberately target a hospital? Why do you have to kill over 600 Palestinians (and in fact, kill more children than your total casualties)? I'm not going to take a side in any of these conflicts. One upon a time, I would've taken up a side, but those times have since past. War is very rarely justified, and I will not be an advocate for violence. War is evil. Violence is evil. If anything, I condemn all the parties. There are ways to get your point across (sanctions, embargoes, etc...). Deliberately targeting civilians is not one of them.

When it comes to Ukraine and Gaza, I’m not going to just single out one side for condemnation. I condemn all sides. If someone kills one of your people, and you retaliate by killing one of theirs, then you’re really no better than them. We’re all grown adults. We can solve our problems without killing each other. To quote Rodney King: “Can’t we all just get along?”

Violence. Is. Evil. Period. Any questions?

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