Good point Mary. WWII was a waste of time. The Jews being trundled into the extermination camps wasn't anybody's business except Adolf Adolf & Co. It was a domestic squabble.
<The real answer is for everybody to keep their noses (of any length) out of the affairs between China and Taiwan. Like any good cop knows, in a domestic squabble, you sometimes have to turn a blind eye and let the family settle matters on their own. Intervention is not always a good idea.
Let the uncles, aunts, and extended family do their thing. The last thing we want is to have someone take you seriously and find solutions in polluting the earth with your quantum particles instead of letting the raucus family shout and squable while slurping bowls of noodles.
Just because we can't understand what they are shouting about, does not mean we have to get our noses out of joint. >
Good point. I can't speak Hebrew or German, so I really have no idea what was going on in those concentration camps where work makes you free.
As you say, if I see you being knifed by one of your relatives, I should mind my own business and leave you to sort the dispute out yourselves. I suppose "relatives" would be out to second cousins once-removed, or should we call "family" more or less broad than that? You racists do draw blurry, confusing, lines.
Look at an example of such a busy-body in New Zealand. He did just that - interfered in a family stabbing. It was none of his business and he should have just, as you say, got on with pumping his petrol and left the mother and son to sort it out themselves. nzherald.co.nz
<A man who stopped a frenzied knife attack on a woman at a South Auckland service station was last night praised by police for his courage.
But Alistair Brewer, of Pukekohe, said he acted "on pure instinct" when he heard a scream and saw a woman being attacked in a car.
The 34-year-old marketing man from Pukekohe was pumping fuel into his car at the BP service station in Bombay at 1pm.
"Suddenly I heard this woman's scream in the car right beside me," he said.
"A man in the passenger seat looked like he was punching this woman. I opened the door and grabbed him and then saw he had a knife.
"He jumped out of the car with the knife. Luckily he dropped it and I gave him the stiff arm round the chops. I put his arm round his back until he dropped to the ground and then put all my weight on his throat to keep him there."
Mr Brewer said the man was athletic and struggled until police arrived. Others on the forecourt helped, including a friend.
People came from their cars to comfort the wounded woman, who police said had 19 stab wounds round the chest but was last night "doing fine."
A 24-year-old Auckland man was charged with attempted murder of the woman, who was his mother. .... continued... >
Well, let's all go slurp some noodles,
Mqurice |
