I do not subscribe to your point of view.
November 8th 2008 10:49
I do not subscribe to your point of view.
I often wonder what goes through the mind of person who spends months planning the deaths of civilians in a terrorist attack. The person must look at the situation objectively as they try to work out the best way to attack. Life of the victim is reduced down to that of an objective. A thing to be disposed of and whose remains are to use as message to their enemy. In the hail of a blast we find the mess and the coldness of someone whose ambition was to create this situation. From what I read of these people they are very much like us. They have families and friends; they laugh and they joke; they want to enjoy but at the same time they have a day job.
I read some time ago the justification for the acts of terrorism by the representative for a terrorist group. It all made sense they way they framed it. It was a war and the dead were just collateral damage. What a shame it was their fault that they were in the way. No one is neutral and no one can possibly be outside the zone of war. Everyone was either an ally or a target. Fancy that.
It is easy to lose focus and begin to wonder why people behave in such an extreme way. The answer is not in the stars; not in their childhood but in their point of view. Unfortunately all things that people believe are relative to a point of view.
I find that in a world where people think that they understand everything and have all the formulaic answers they often have very few answers. The formula works so well when they read it from a book or saw from their bedrooms. The formula always works as long as it never tested. The answers are always right as long as they are never questioned. The world that they represent is always perfect in the mind that sees it as such. Yet if the end result of the plan is to make as many dead people as possible do we need this kind of perfection.
I am not certain precisely what goes through the mind of people who plan such tragic events because I do not know them. All I can say is that I do not subscribe to their point of view.
Regardless of how it is framed and how emphatically they expect me to agree I do not subscribe to your point of view. I have my own reasons for disagree. Ones that you may not know about. So do not try to read me like a book and prod me like an insect pinned. I will speak when I want and say what I wish to say. I do not need to explain, nor justify, nor concede, nor reveal my personal reasons. Those are mine to give and keep as I so choose.
I do not subscribe to your point of view.
And it does not matter to me if you do not understand why.
You do not keep me.
You do not feed me.
You do not clothe me.
You do not carry my conscience
I do not answer to you.
I do not subscribe to your point of view.
Live with it.
I do not subscribe to your point of view.
I often wonder what goes through the mind of person who spends months planning the deaths of civilians in a terrorist attack. The person must look at the situation objectively as they try to work out the best way to attack. Life of the victim is reduced down to that of an objective. A thing to be disposed of and whose remains are to use as message to their enemy. In the hail of a blast we find the mess and the coldness of someone whose ambition was to create this situation. From what I read of these people they are very much like us. They have families and friends; they laugh and they joke; they want to enjoy but at the same time they have a day job.
I read some time ago the justification for the acts of terrorism by the representative for a terrorist group. It all made sense they way they framed it. It was a war and the dead were just collateral damage. What a shame it was their fault that they were in the way. No one is neutral and no one can possibly be outside the zone of war. Everyone was either an ally or a target. Fancy that.
It is easy to lose focus and begin to wonder why people behave in such an extreme way. The answer is not in the stars; not in their childhood but in their point of view. Unfortunately all things that people believe are relative to a point of view.
I find that in a world where people think that they understand everything and have all the formulaic answers they often have very few answers. The formula works so well when they read it from a book or saw from their bedrooms. The formula always works as long as it never tested. The answers are always right as long as they are never questioned. The world that they represent is always perfect in the mind that sees it as such. Yet if the end result of the plan is to make as many dead people as possible do we need this kind of perfection.
I am not certain precisely what goes through the mind of people who plan such tragic events because I do not know them. All I can say is that I do not subscribe to their point of view.
Regardless of how it is framed and how emphatically they expect me to agree I do not subscribe to your point of view. I have my own reasons for disagree. Ones that you may not know about. So do not try to read me like a book and prod me like an insect pinned. I will speak when I want and say what I wish to say. I do not need to explain, nor justify, nor concede, nor reveal my personal reasons. Those are mine to give and keep as I so choose.
I do not subscribe to your point of view.
And it does not matter to me if you do not understand why.
You do not keep me.
You do not feed me.
You do not clothe me.
You do not carry my conscience
I do not answer to you.
I do not subscribe to your point of view.
Live with it.
Live with it
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