ISIS 'beheads teenage boys for listening to pop music and missing Friday prayers'

[Stargleamer]

72. at times like these, mutual blame seems to be the best course possible

but this is so often the case.

we blame and imprison the offender who sexually abuses children, while knowing that his background (having often been sexually abused himself) is a contributing factor in the abuse. The serial killer Carl Panzram became a monster, after suffering years of vicious abuse. A society-created monster.

I think LBJ bears some responsibility for what Lt. Calley and his men did at My Lai (because morality often breaks down in times of war) but ultimately the cruelty of Calley and his men are on them. I note that Hugh Thompson didn't start killing the Vietnamese there.

We just have to blame those who hurt, but also the conditions that brought about them becoming those who hurt. And no, I cannot even come up with who's mostly to blame; it might not be that relevant.

All this is from someone who thinks ISIS makes the Nazis look like pikers when it comes to approximating pure evil. Yes, i think the Iraqi War was just another politically-motivated disaster committed by the WPE, but mainly because of the Iraqis (and Americans) killed, not because it destabilized the region.