Winstonfield: "[There are those who] use thier belief system as an excuse to behave like jackasses. ... In every group you have people lacking the character, spine, and decency to stop themselves from becoming prejudiced cads." Then: "I think you want a video-sharing site that ISN'T dominated by vocal insecure people who happen to favor atheism and liberalism."
Well done. You get the medal for consecutive self-referential posts! I actually laughed out loud at this one.
"You can't become a pacifist or a conscientious objector after actively seeking a job in which you might have to kill people."
Why?
Taken out of context, your statement doesn't make sense. It is possible for people to realize they have taken an incorrect action and seek to correct it only after having gone down the initial route. Taken in context, your statement is at best an over-simplification/generalization and at worst a conscious attempt to silence those who know first-hand the personal destruction of war. On the contrary, I would think that knowing precisely what it is like to shoot a fellow human with a different skin color and watch while his family tries to make him comfortable in his last breaths gives a human the ability to conscientiously object, like no other human can. Watching ones close friends die at the hand of an enemy only attacking you because you're affiliated with a swagger-rabbit asshole who just told them all to "Bring It On" would be enough to give a human the right to choose pacifism.
Those who have lived through that are, uniquely, allowed.
Richard Dawkins: One Fact to Refute Creationism
Then: "I think you want a video-sharing site that ISN'T dominated by vocal insecure people who happen to favor atheism and liberalism."
Well done. You get the medal for consecutive self-referential posts! I actually laughed out loud at this one.
I´ve discovered something Amazing!
US Soldier Exposes American Policy
Why?
Taken out of context, your statement doesn't make sense. It is possible for people to realize they have taken an incorrect action and seek to correct it only after having gone down the initial route. Taken in context, your statement is at best an over-simplification/generalization and at worst a conscious attempt to silence those who know first-hand the personal destruction of war. On the contrary, I would think that knowing precisely what it is like to shoot a fellow human with a different skin color and watch while his family tries to make him comfortable in his last breaths gives a human the ability to conscientiously object, like no other human can. Watching ones close friends die at the hand of an enemy only attacking you because you're affiliated with a swagger-rabbit asshole who just told them all to "Bring It On" would be enough to give a human the right to choose pacifism.
Those who have lived through that are, uniquely, allowed.