I thought Bruce Willis was "evil" in this movie.
You don't go outside often.
Incorrect.
You have never been in a combat situation.
Correct.
You have delusions about the rest of the world's population and what human beings do to other human beings on a regular basis.
Incorrect.
The general in this film literally WARNED the powers that be what would happen if martial law was implemented. He WARNED them, just like I would. That's not evil, that's being a professional.
He didn't warn them that he personally would order people tortured.
NO ONE who posts here would be prepared for the realities of a martial law situation.
*shrugs* Perhaps so.
Most of you people wouldn't even be able to handle being locked in an institution (criminal or otherwise) for more than 48 hours, let alone being in a military-controlled city.
*shrugs* Perhaps so.
I'd even be willing to wager that a lot of people who randomly fist-shake and scream "EVIL VILLIN!" wouldn't be able to make it through BCT.
I certainly wouldn't.
So what, exactly? Are you of the opinion that people who can pass BCT are the only ones capable of making valid moral judgments or something?
That doesn't change the fact that people with guns keep YOU safe.
Indeed they do. I have no problem with that. In fact, I applaud it and them. Good on them for doing that difficult and dangerous job. It doesn't give them a license to act in an immoral manner, though.
People who kill and torture others keep YOU safe.
If people torture others to keep me safe then they should stop; I don't want the safety they offer, thank you. I would prefer to be less safe in a country where the government does not torture people.
Some people lose their basic human rights, and it isn't YOU. Be glad, stop whining.
I am glad it's not me.
*beep* primitives in Africa dying in diamond mines and yet we have threads crying about some random getting tortured to death?
You appear to think that it's only possible to address one problem at a time, and so the way to go is to address the very worst one, and ignore all the others? If so then I don't agree; it is perfectly possible to address many different problems simultaneously. And torture by our government is a really easy one to address; we simply follow the laws that say you don't torture. End of problem. Then we can get on with worrying about all those primitives in the African diamond mines.
You have it just fine, the world is the way it is, and nothing will ever change it.
The facts would seem to disagree. We are living in what is certainly the best time in all of human history right now. IMO, it's only likely to get better in the long term. Our descendants will look back on us as primitive savages, much as we look at those poor diamond miners you mentioned now. That's as it should be, and I see no reason to hold off on making the improvements that will get us from here to there.
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Christianity : A god who loves you so much that he'll set fire to you if you don't love him back
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dixiedragon
8 years ago
Did anyone else here feel like they needed a long hot shower after reading this screwball's post? Thank heavens (I think) that someone died giving him/her the "right" to spew such sewage from the mouth he kisses his mama with.
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