Well, I think we are beginning to see why wars happen.
All this strong feeling exhibited on this thread is scaring me more than India's nukes. Come on - to learn from history, we must separate ourselves from it, first.
When upset politically, I ask myself this - Is my opinion more like my own parents' opinions or more like my opponent's parents' opinion? If more like my own parents', then I probably am not thinking freely, but merely an automaton of history.
Upon this realization, I become more free to find an opinion which is neither my parents' nor my opponent's parents' opinion - and thus the possibility of a solution amenable to both myself and my opponent becomes a possibility.
The recent conversations on this thread sound too much like the conversations we hear and read about between Pakistan and India, and I do not hear any new ideas or mutually acceptable solutions being presented. And, too, I wonder why I don't hear any Chinese arguing with Indians on this thread. Why?
With best wishes to all, Peter |
