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MisterJLA said:
All cultures are not equal. Any culture that encourages people to strap bombs to themselves, and target civilians is the definition of inferior...



I thought you guys were arguing that a RELIGION encouraged that shit. Now it's a suddenly whole culture. In the end you're talking about people. You're saying people aren't equal. Equal! Such a silly word. To be used only in jokes and parties, never in amendments and the like.

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the G-man said:
(b) murder was a mortal sin.



Pariah is the resident expert and he disagrees. In fact, if you kill someone for the right reason (= what you think is the right reason), it's so good it's not even murder!

Look, you guys are blowing up babies in Iraq. No one disputes that. But it's for the right reason, so it's okay. Guess what, boys and girls: radical islamists (= all islamists = all arabs = nuke em all!) ALSO think they're blowing up babies for the right reason! They bombed two towers to enforce what they believe in, well, you bombed two japanese cities for basically the same reason. Everyone thinks they're right. Your crimes look as atrocious to them as theirs look to you. Granted, there's an obvious difference in scope that makes them the bigger nuts in the locker room (after all, I'm talking about radicals and not a whole culture even if you're not), but the fact that you're both blowing up babies when you could choose not to remains.

You're never gonna get along, first of all, because you both insist in judging a whole culture (do you even understand what "a whole culture" implies?) by their worst exponents, and secondly because you refuse to even consider viewing things from their perspective, which is how logic says problems should begin their solution. Not from the perspective of the terrorist (for fuck's sake), from the perspective of the guy in the street who leads a normal hard-working Allah-fearing life and is secretely glad them american infidels were given a taste of their own medicine, even though he generally doesn't say it out loud. It should be easy to get on his position, cause you feel exactly the same towards them. Both sides think they would live in peace if the other side ceased to exist, but you're both wrong.