Joe, <<<There zero chance that hatred will be ended, for the very reason that you identified in your post: I know for instance there are many non arab, all American Christian type people ( I don't want to put a number on it and also because I don't know how many there are) who actually hate Jews for absolutely no sane reason. >>>
<<<This is why I find Politically Correct movement and its Storm Troopers so comical on one level (considering that they are on a noble quest), but pitiful and reprehensible on another level. Their victory is if the either silence people, or intimidate them into conforming, saying things that are different from their thoughts. What is more un-American that this?>>>
Do you see the irony in your two statements? This is the beauty of America. We are not going to stone you to death if you spout hate. But it is not acceptable. If you act out your hate, it is against the law. You probably still don't get it.
<<<You can try to reason with people but if the people can't be reasoned with. If the "reasoning" is institutionalized and enters the stage of propaganda, indoctrination or intimidation, all you end up attacking the freedom of thought and freedom of conscience. Losing this freedom is incomparably greater tragedy than if someone in his mind hates Jews, Christian or Muslims.>>>
Do you really think that people who can't be reasoned with have an intellectual rationale that can be defended. Do you really think that civilization can exist if irrational thought wins out? Evil can only exist in ignorance. It can not exist in an open society. The thought police as you characterize it, is really the open market place of ideas - where irrational and bogus thinking is rooted out.
Just look at the types of people that agree with you on this thread and then look at the types of people that disagree with you - do you see a difference?
I think you are intelligent enough to see this difference, but that you are too close to an emotional epicenter to see clearly.
Mary |
