darthtang aw
Active Member
Here is the inherit problem with this. While I support it I can understand why some are against this. It goes all the way to the core of our very being. We are a country founded on basic human rights. For a long time those rights were only extended to some humans. Over time we moved past racial, sexual, and ethnic views to extend these rights to all citizens in this country. Even to the point where we extend these rights to our own criminals. It is a bsic principle and needs to be upheld.
Where this goes off track is we are dealing with people that DON'T feel, or agree with these same basic rights. Hence the problems Isreal has. Their viewpoint is based off of a theological and racist view point. Only those sons and Daughters of Allah deserve these rights. All others must be enslaved or destroyed. There is no room for compromise in their minds or hearts. There is no room for those that disagree. Their women are not granted these "basic" rights even. Women are treated and viewed worse than those pre women revolution in this country.
Thisd brings me to how my view is formed on this. If a person does not believe all people should have the same basic human rights this should exempt them from the same basic treatment.
Terrorists care not whom they kill, they care about the message and that it gets across. Sawing off a head, blowing up a school, Flying planes into a civilian building killing 3000 people all innocent. These people care not for my BASIC human rights, therefore in my eyes they are not deserving of theirs. If they were attacking purely military targets with the occasional civilian casualties, I would grant them these BASIC rights. But they aren't and never have. They target areas that create a high number casualties regardless of civilian or military. They do this to invoke fear and chaos. They do this to break a countries resolve and force them to question their own principals. And I will be DAMNed if I will ever feel concerned about someone's rights who isn't concerned about my own.
Now does this erode away our basic principals and affect what we hold dear in this country? I don't believe so. We treat our prisoners better than any country in the world. We treat illegal immigrants better. We don't execute immediately once a murderer has been convicted. We stick to our basic Human Rights principals. But in the instance of a group that cares absolutely nothing about basic human rights...I have no care or concern for.
There are some that will say, hey, aren't you supposed to turn the other cheek? That is true, but a person only has two cheeks, and when the both get slapped..............then what?
Where this goes off track is we are dealing with people that DON'T feel, or agree with these same basic rights. Hence the problems Isreal has. Their viewpoint is based off of a theological and racist view point. Only those sons and Daughters of Allah deserve these rights. All others must be enslaved or destroyed. There is no room for compromise in their minds or hearts. There is no room for those that disagree. Their women are not granted these "basic" rights even. Women are treated and viewed worse than those pre women revolution in this country.
Thisd brings me to how my view is formed on this. If a person does not believe all people should have the same basic human rights this should exempt them from the same basic treatment.
Terrorists care not whom they kill, they care about the message and that it gets across. Sawing off a head, blowing up a school, Flying planes into a civilian building killing 3000 people all innocent. These people care not for my BASIC human rights, therefore in my eyes they are not deserving of theirs. If they were attacking purely military targets with the occasional civilian casualties, I would grant them these BASIC rights. But they aren't and never have. They target areas that create a high number casualties regardless of civilian or military. They do this to invoke fear and chaos. They do this to break a countries resolve and force them to question their own principals. And I will be DAMNed if I will ever feel concerned about someone's rights who isn't concerned about my own.
Now does this erode away our basic principals and affect what we hold dear in this country? I don't believe so. We treat our prisoners better than any country in the world. We treat illegal immigrants better. We don't execute immediately once a murderer has been convicted. We stick to our basic Human Rights principals. But in the instance of a group that cares absolutely nothing about basic human rights...I have no care or concern for.
There are some that will say, hey, aren't you supposed to turn the other cheek? That is true, but a person only has two cheeks, and when the both get slapped..............then what?
