http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081114/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan_acid_attack
This is insane...Innocent people are being burnt with acid for no apparant reason. I couldn't imagive living in a place where I had to fear for my life everyday because people might do hideous crimes against one another. We often complain about the wolrd we are living in but just imagine what these people have to go through everyday. Often, we are quick to complain about our lives because we're just simply having a bad day or we want those new shoes that we just can't afford. To me, this pales in comparison to knowing you could potentially die for simply wearing makeup out in public in these countries. And, having to be accompanied by a man everytime they step foot out of the house...these women have no independence. For once I would like to see everyone treated with respect because I guarantee if the tables were turned, it would take on a whole new perspective and I'm guessing they wouldn't appreciate it either.
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That's horrible, indeed. Indefensible. What can we bring to our understanding of the world with inputs into our experience like this? Are we going to blame this or that group or viewpoint?
Examples of the atrocities committed in the name of this or that ideology, they extend throughout human history. I don't know about the world & what it's coming to. I don't know if that's ever been a different concern. Has the world simply been coming to where we are for as long as it has been around? Are we coming through what we're going through in order to arrive at some meaningful resolution of these actions we take as a mass population of human beings?
People have walked in fear of such violence, and have often given up the fight, as if that would make them safe. It's interesting to look at the progression of Nazi atrocities in the middle of the 20th Century, which began with fostering racism, to segregation, to slavery, to torture & mass murder, each stage seeming like a better alternative than death, so accepted rather than fought.
I have long thought that any surrender to evil, or giving up trying to effect positive change, would a capitulation to that evil, a collaboration with the very thing we are so hurt by that we give up. It's not that individuals are embodiments of that evil, but can infect us through them.
Anyway, I agree that this is senseless & cowardly, etc., and extremely misogynist. Someone said something interesting to me the other day, about a certain culture's approach to animals, in that case, & which also has problems with other types of beings, women included. It makes me wonder if there may be a generalized intolerance which may pervade certain learned attitudes, & if that is where the problem lives--because if it feeds on certain things, like hatred or prejudice, & is passed on to the next generation, then it truly does live, like a disease within the human being.
I think education is the number one antidote to this disease. Whoever fights education, then, may be infected, & wants to keep others infected, as well. It's like those zombie movies, where the infected hate the healthy. But it would explain why education would be so hateful to them. They wouldn't be able to so effectively enslave others and impose their own sick fantasies of domination & superiority quite so easily.
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