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JoePhilly

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75. You again seem to pit those against each other.

Fri Jul 20, 2012, 05:48 PM

Jul 2012

If my sister dies, that will be my priority.

If my neighbor dies, that will be a priority.

Increase the distance, and my personal engagement MUST reduce. I can not, personally, engage every death. I can not cry the same tears for some one 1000s of miles away as I would for my sister. If I did, I would never stop crying. I'd lack the will to go forward. And so would you.

We don't care about others as much as those closet to us because we CAN'T.

Do you bring every homeless person you meet into your home? If you don't, then using your logic, you don't care enough about others.

Today, Americans are mourning the lose of other Americans in Colorado, and to suggest that focusing on this, and not on some tragic event in some other country is nuts.

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Aurora atrocity more important than Syrian slaughter? [View all] the Weird Liberal Jul 2012 OP

Disgusting. ForgoTheConsequence Jul 2012 #1

You know what's REALLY disgusting? the Weird Liberal Jul 2012 #2

Send us your address... Wait Wut Jul 2012 #5

Better ways to make a point? the Weird Liberal Jul 2012 #10

Don't say anything. ForgoTheConsequence Jul 2012 #11

Am I asking you to? the Weird Liberal Jul 2012 #16

Why don't you go? AtheistCrusader Jul 2012 #60

Why don't I go? the Weird Liberal Jul 2012 #63

I do care about them. AtheistCrusader Jul 2012 #70

If I thought that starting an Iraq-style war in Syria would help the Syrian people, and I cared sabrina 1 Jul 2012 #83

So did you enlist yet? ForgoTheConsequence Jul 2012 #7

A warmonger? the Weird Liberal Jul 2012 #12

Volunteer if there is a draft? AtheistCrusader Jul 2012 #62

Again... the Weird Liberal Jul 2012 #64

Being practical. AtheistCrusader Jul 2012 #72

I'm a military recruiter. Will you go? uppityperson Jul 2012 #79

Whoever is arming the Syrian opposition is responsible for much of the bloodshed in sabrina 1 Jul 2012 #19

Gadhafi was slaughtering his own people the Weird Liberal Jul 2012 #22

Actually, no, the lies about thousands dead were totally debunked, by the individual who sabrina 1 Jul 2012 #41

Conspiracy theories... the Weird Liberal Jul 2012 #47

HE THREATENED TO! AtheistCrusader Jul 2012 #65

"HE THREATENED TO!" the Weird Liberal Jul 2012 #74

If you can ever tell me EXACTLY how many innocent children we killed in Iraq AtheistCrusader Jul 2012 #78

Testimony before the UN is a CT now? sabrina 1 Jul 2012 #80

"Help the FSA to liberate their nation" entails killing a group of Syrians to advance the religious leveymg Jul 2012 #20

It is like Libya the Weird Liberal Jul 2012 #26

The two situations aren't really comparable. leveymg Jul 2012 #34

What's your solution then? the Weird Liberal Jul 2012 #38

There is no political solution, and more int'l intervention will simply spark wider regional war leveymg Jul 2012 #57

After Libya the Weird Liberal Jul 2012 #61

Libya was the lowest-hanging fruit. It's not a model for peace in the region. leveymg Jul 2012 #76

Maybe you should join forces with the neocons champing at the bit to go in there and 'get some'. AtheistCrusader Jul 2012 #66

Libya was a disaster and a major war crime. Please do not try to use that travesty sabrina 1 Jul 2012 #43

There is no New World Order the Weird Liberal Jul 2012 #48

Conspiracy theories? You get your info from Alex Jones and you call me a CT? sabrina 1 Jul 2012 #71

so spot on as usual, keep calling the war-shills out!! stockholmer Jul 2012 #93

+1000000000000000000000000 stockholmer Jul 2012 #92

Syria has China and Russia backing them Confusious Jul 2012 #3

China and Russia will back down the Weird Liberal Jul 2012 #4

Would you back down? Confusious Jul 2012 #8

Not exactly accurate the Weird Liberal Jul 2012 #13

Technology doesn't mean everything Confusious Jul 2012 #18

Know why we won, actually? the Weird Liberal Jul 2012 #28

They still kept us at bay for 5 years Confusious Jul 2012 #37

Of course we're the most powerful the Weird Liberal Jul 2012 #39

I thought I had Confusious Jul 2012 #52

So our money we spend on our military doesn't translate into any technological or any other edge? the Weird Liberal Jul 2012 #58

No I've just had more time to read Confusious Jul 2012 #73

So you're for war? sabrina 1 Jul 2012 #21

Ranting and raving... sigh... the Weird Liberal Jul 2012 #29

And what would be different from Iraq in Syria? sabrina 1 Jul 2012 #50

How DARE you? the Weird Liberal Jul 2012 #54

I saw that video when it first began circulating and have asked many times, what is the source sabrina 1 Jul 2012 #85

You're not a liberal. ForgoTheConsequence Jul 2012 #9

Ignorance is bliss, ain't it? the Weird Liberal Jul 2012 #14

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Now you have the simple solutions... the Weird Liberal Jul 2012 #67

I didn't say it would result in World Peace, I said it would contribute to less violence if we sabrina 1 Jul 2012 #77

Well said. Sounds like the old FR support for the Iraq travesty. sabrina 1 Jul 2012 #24

Can't be argued with, can you? the Weird Liberal Jul 2012 #30

No, it is not more important. Chorophyll Jul 2012 #6

I'm not saying we shouldn't be discussing it the Weird Liberal Jul 2012 #15

You can't get rationality from a mound of angry red ants. L0oniX Jul 2012 #17

Excuse me. My response was irrational how, exactly? nt Chorophyll Jul 2012 #86

Damn, this kid again. Carnage251 Jul 2012 #23

Yup, me the Weird Liberal Jul 2012 #32

Are you the kid in the video? uppityperson Jul 2012 #81

It is more important in Aurora Lil Missy Jul 2012 #25

I bet the Weird Liberal Jul 2012 #33

For today, yes. JoePhilly Jul 2012 #27

Sorta does, yeah the Weird Liberal Jul 2012 #36

Regularly ... next quesiton. JoePhilly Jul 2012 #44

The sarcasm and smarminess displayed in the video is sickening ProudToBeBlueInRhody Jul 2012 #31

I should be ashamed in myself? the Weird Liberal Jul 2012 #35

"You want to pretend it isn't happening." ProudToBeBlueInRhody Jul 2012 #40

"I have you on tape" the Weird Liberal Jul 2012 #42

It's kinda sad the complete lack of empathy.... ProudToBeBlueInRhody Jul 2012 #46

I do care. I care more than you I suspect the Weird Liberal Jul 2012 #51

Good for you ProudToBeBlueInRhody Jul 2012 #55

The weird one seems to be building many straw-men. JoePhilly Jul 2012 #45

I'm not gonna keep repeating myself the Weird Liberal Jul 2012 #49

You again seem to pit those against each other. JoePhilly Jul 2012 #75

Zbigniew Brzezinski was on Morning Joe this morning.... nenagh Jul 2012 #53

Morning Joe? the Weird Liberal Jul 2012 #68

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Brzezinski never had much tolerance for the Neo-cons and their ME war obsessions. sabrina 1 Jul 2012 #82

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How are we to "end the bloodshed"? Scootaloo Jul 2012 #56

Post removed Post removed Jul 2012 #69

You're not going to be an "appeaser"? ForgoTheConsequence Jul 2012 #84

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Keeping score on tragedy and/or disaster? Iggo Jul 2012 #90

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