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Aerows

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14. If someone starves you

Fri Jul 25, 2014, 08:26 PM

Jul 2014

oppresses you and you respond by striking them in the mouth, is it okay to retaliate by killing you and your children?

It's not okay to strike them in the mouth, but it wasn't okay to oppress you or kill you and to kill your children, either.

This idea that one side has to be absolutely right and the other absolutely wrong is what prevents peace. At some point people have to come to grips with their grievances with one another and put the weapons away if there is to be peace. "You did this" and "You did that" ad infinitum isn't going to make peace.

It takes work - killing each other, especially when one party is far and away better armed, isn't a solution, unless the ultimate solution is domination to the point of eradication.

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Hiding War Crimes Behind a Question [View all] stupidicus Jul 2014 OP

Here is the problem. Savannahmann Jul 2014 #1

"You instigated the violence." Martin Eden Jul 2014 #5

Yes - what these short-sighted pro-Likud posters seem to keep misunderstanding Maedhros Jul 2014 #7

You should get off the fence Savannahmann Jul 2014 #9

To choose sides, like you have obviously done? Martin Eden Jul 2014 #10

We've tried the other methods. Savannahmann Jul 2014 #11

'We've tried the other methods' RobertEarl Jul 2014 #17

The only side I've taken is against the needless slaughter of innocents Martin Eden Jul 2014 #18

NO it's not, that's just one of many problems stupidicus Jul 2014 #12

If someone starves you Aerows Jul 2014 #14

But Israel is not "hitting" Hamas. Maedhros Jul 2014 #2

Whom the terror org Hamas IronGate Jul 2014 #3

When a criminal takes a child hostage, Maedhros Jul 2014 #6

Was Hamas holding the boys on the beach under rockets? morningfog Jul 2014 #8

Oh, well there's that pesky little detail. R. Daneel Olivaw Jul 2014 #4

and undeniably so stupidicus Jul 2014 #13

You honestly have to ask when Aerows Jul 2014 #15

yep stupidicus Jul 2014 #16