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jeepers

(314 posts) Mon Nov 16, 2015, 01:13 PM Nov 2015

I'll take the beating for this because it isn't nice but [View all]

I am going to ask it anyways. If you were to learn that the murderers in Paris were sons, fathers and daughters from Fallujah would it affect your thinking?

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I'll take the beating for this because it isn't nice but [View all] jeepers Nov 2015 OP

No Marrah_G Nov 2015 #1

good, can you explain that? jeepers Nov 2015 #4

Well, I am already aware of the effect that war has had people in Iraq Marrah_G Nov 2015 #10

If this happened to someone you knew, would you care? Renew Deal Nov 2015 #2

In Fallujah or in Paris? jeepers Nov 2015 #6

Would it matter? Renew Deal Nov 2015 #7

shouldn't jeepers Nov 2015 #8

Burn a mole. No biggie. Buzz Clik Nov 2015 #3

Yes. Context is all. Orsino Nov 2015 #5

Context, jeepers Nov 2015 #9

I can't answer a hypothetical, but one possibility is what the OP posits. Orsino Nov 2015 #11

No. It would be disturbing to be related by blood geek tragedy Nov 2015 #12

We know they aren't, though. nt MADem Nov 2015 #13

No avebury Nov 2015 #14

Permanent war in the ME is really, really good for a very, very few . HickFromTheTick Nov 2015 #15