Is It Respectful?

Buring a flag is like burning a shirt, WHO THE HELL CARES. material is material, its not a big deal and america is not the greatest land, so i think people need to relax.

Obsession with your country's flag, patriotism, self-centeredness, etc....why do countries need to be so obsessively proud about themselves? Why can't everyone just be loving, kind, helpfull, non-violent, respectfull, etc.?

who gives a flipping crap about some stupid Flag anyway, it was only created afew hundrad years ago.

Originally posted by MysteryRidah
Buring a flag is like burning a shirt, WHO THE HELL CARES. material is material, its not a big deal and america is not the greatest land, so i think people need to relax.

The difference between a religious scripture and a piece of cloth is clear. And don't say "It's what the flag represents!" Yeah? What? Freedom? Such as the freedom to burn the flag as long as it doesn't hurt anyone.

-AC

Originally posted by Mišt
If I saw someone outside burning my country's flag, I would probably laugh at them. Burning it in protest against the government or whatever reason they are doing it, well moron.....go live somewhere else.

😆 Excellent... so simple and yet so profound 🙄

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
"I don't believe in burning the flag, it's my personal belief but I think people overreact...ooh, JUST A LITTLE BIT! 'Hey man, my daddy died for that flag!' 'Really? I bought mine. Sorry.' 'Hey man, my daddy died in the Korean war for that flag!' 'Coincidence! My flag was made in Korea!' People talk about freedom, fighting for freedom etc. Which is, of course, the freedom to burn the flag in the first place. It's a flag, it's a piece of cloth."

Bill Hicks, as usual, a more accurate and realistic opinion than most people.

Don't moan about freedom if you're gonna remove the freedom to do things like flag-burning which end up hurting a grand total of zero people.

-AC

I do believe that was well said.

Originally posted by Syren
😆 Excellent... so simple and yet so profound 🙄

Or he could just walk away from the window and forget they're doing it. His life would remain the same.

-AC

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
Or he could just walk away from the window and forget they're doing it. His life would remain the same.

-AC

Who's to say he wouldn't walk away and forget they were doing it? Why not have a little laugh first? His life would still remain the same if he laughed... even though yours might not 😛

I was referring to the idea of him being of the belief that he thinks people shouldn't live there if they wanna do it. Which is blinkered 🙂.

-AC

I'd completely ignore them. Giving them any form of attention is exactly why they're doing it. They want the attention - and burning the flag is the only way idiots can get their feeble point noticed by other people, it's a cop out done by stupid people for stupid reasons to get people to notice these stupid reasons.

Of course, if they went up in flames like the douche in the picture I posted earlier in the thread, then I'd laugh. Also wouldn't help him in any way. That wonderful freedom that the flag represents.

Originally posted by FeceMan
You're right. Burning a flag is a lot like flushing a Qu'ran down the toilet, even.

Now, neither action is meant to be particularly respectful, but it really ought not to be taken so seriously. You can come burn my flag any time: a Maple Leaf is a nice design and all but I'm not going to get worked up about it. You can't burn any of my books though: I paid good money for them.

As I tried to say earlier, but wasn't properly understood....Anyone that burns a flag is making a Strong statement, meant to be taken with us being taken with disrespect....though I think it's a degenerative type of thinking meant to stir up....it sure does.....but I do Have respect for my country.

I Don't find it disrespectfull, FFS they shot down Ché! They deserve worst.

Now burning religious scriptures is completely disrespectful.
Like even though i am not Christian i got a bible in the mail once. I still keep in my drawer because i think its a real teribile thing if you throw it in the garbage.

Originally posted by Zarathustra
You betcha. Muslims who are offended by it would say that it's wrong because the Qu'ran is the unadulterated word of God... but come now: the particular copy that's being flushed was not written down by the followers of the prophet as he had his revelations from God. It's been copied innumerable times for hundreds of years, and at the end of the day it's just printed Arabic words on pages. Granted that's a lot closer to the original source than, say, The King James Bible or any other English translation of the bible which probably has 2 or 3 translations in between the English and the original Hebrew and Greek, but to say it's unadulterated seems a tad unrealistic to me. Besides, it's the meaning of the words that matters: not the actual pages of the thing.

Now, neither action is meant to be particularly respectful, but it really ought not to be taken so seriously. You can come burn my flag any time: a Maple Leaf is a nice design and all but I'm not going to get worked up about it. You can't burn any of my books though: I paid good money for them.

Originally posted by FeceMan
No...you see, you weren't supposed to take my side. You were supposed to get angry and yell at me. Bad, bad Zarathustra.

That better? 😕

😂

It's been a good day for laughs on these threads...

It's a national flag, not a national deity.

The three people who said that it is disrespectful to burn the flag in the poll, are yet to explain themselves.