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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (17730)	7/6/2001 8:26:45 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

This discussion just shows how different our cultural values are from those of the Taliban. I read an interview with bin Laden about two years ago, as I recall. It was frightening. His priorities, principles, beliefs were so different from my own that I don't imagine there would be much room to find common ground. Yet I'm sure he holds his with as much self-respect as I hold mine, and that he is as sure he is right as I am. Actually, he's probably a lot more sure. It's hard to find common ground with someone who believes that the only purpose of being on earth is to gain entrance to Heaven, and that killing infidels is a good way to get there more quickly and more certainly than anything else. X talks about her sense of decency being offended by much of the Taliban belief. But equally, I'm sure that her lifestyle offends their sense of decency. After all, X probably displays her face in public, to the utter shame of her family and her obligation of modesty. IMO Americans have an immense blindness in believing that our values are better than any other values on earth and that we know the way every person on earth should live. It's an arrogance that is perhaps the most objectionable aspect of the American culture.