I feel so sorry for the solders on the ground, they are going to go through hell now, their lives as they knew them are over. And this has nothing to do with taking sides.
My dad always taught me not to hit someone who is already on the ground.
I can surely understand the other side, if that's what you meant. Their anger is justified and understandable. But that is the very moment where max control needs to be exercised.
When we read about the Nice events, we have a side with which we can fully associate ourselves - ordinary people, the victims of an evil act. It's a sad situation, but our sense of good and evil "knows what to do" and we distribute our emotions very clearly: disgust to one side, compassion to another. When we deal with situations in which both sides act as villains (shooting into the crowd VS sadistic mob justice), we have mixed feelings towards both sides - compassion + disgust. It hurts, isn't it?
It does but for me it is not even about feelings at all here, feelings I can understand. It is about control over what you do based on those feelings however justified they are when the other side cannot respond and is not dangerous anymore.
Yes, of course, I thought that goes without mentioning at all. To hit a defenseless (and tied) man is a 100% bad thing to do. There is nothing to argue about.
When I said "it hurts", it was not about these people making their revenge but about you and me, observers who cannot have a good side to associate with...
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Date: 2016-07-16 08:31 pm (UTC)The real test, surely, is behaving well even when the other side break the rules. :-(
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Date: 2016-07-16 09:33 pm (UTC)When I said "it hurts", it was not about these people making their revenge but about you and me, observers who cannot have a good side to associate with...
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