Originally posted by Lestov16You don't need sympathy for people to respect human rights. That's why they're called human rights: you extend them to all, even the ones you hate most. Once we start picking and choosing which people deserve rights over others, we've joined the scum of the earth we purport to be better than. Cherry picking which humans deserve to live more, or which ones deserve more protection, or which ones get to be subject to these laws, is exactly what Taliban and ISIS c*nts do. They put people they dislike or disagree with beneath them on the roster of human worth, and treat them accordingly. And they call it just and right.
Sorry that my sympathy doesn't lie with those who wish to commit mass murder of innocents and install an extremely repressive theocracy.
If we're to be better than these groups and ideologies, than we have to uphold our superior values no matter what. Emotions can't be involved. Human rights for all humans, no matter what we think of them.
Originally posted by Tattoos N Scars
Would anyone here fantasize about torture if someone brutally killed your family?
It's easy to preach about following the moral high ground until terrorism actually hits close to home with your own family.
You can't let personal feelings set the rule for the masses. Sure, if someone raped and murdered someone close to me (say my mother), I'd be emotional and I'd personally want to choke the life out of them with my bare-hands; most people probably would if that happened to them.
But thinking sensibly, that's not good practice for a society.
Originally posted by Lord Lucien
You don't need sympathy for people to respect human rights. That's why they're called human rights: you extend them to all, even the ones you hate most. Once we start picking and choosing which people deserve rights over others, we've joined the scum of the earth we purport to be better than. Cherry picking which humans deserve to live more, or which ones deserve more protection, or which ones get to be subject to these laws, is exactly what Taliban and ISIS c*nts do. They put people they dislike or disagree with beneath them on the roster of human worth, and treat them accordingly. And they call it just and right.If we're to be better than these groups and ideologies, than we have to uphold our superior values no matter what. Emotions can't be involved. Human rights for all humans, no matter what we think of them.
Originally posted by Tattoos N Scars
Would anyone here fantasize about torture if someone brutally killed your family?
It's easy to preach about following the moral high ground until terrorism actually hits close to home with your own family.
Why fantasize about torture? Honestly, if I lived in that area and I was invaded and survived, while my family was killed, I dont think I'd care enough about torture and only make it a life mission to sow what was reaped. But that's the whole downward spiral there. I'd likely be a statistic. We can be dumb violent monkeys. We should try and just bring each other up but still be able to defend ourselves and other good people. Torture isn't necessary.