20 hours ago, blaze master said:

Spight difference between someone who sins and someone who murders.

Someone who steals a candy bar cannot be compared to someone who kills.

You give up your human card when you cross certain lines. To conflate small sins to things like murder rape etc is simply disingenuous and cannot be taken seriously.

I agree with you wholeheartedly. I do think that there are certain lines that one crosses in this lifetime which essentially amount to a self-rification of the right to consume oxygen.

5 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

We have too many people on the planet losing a few here and there is a good thing.

Are you volunteering to be one of those casualties?

3 hours ago, MIke B Bad said:

People are far to indoctrinated (by the church and TV) with this "woe is me" attitude....I must grieve........ this is the end of my world....I can't cope.

With the exception of my own children and grandchildren I really couldn't give a flying about anyone else (wife maybe?).

Watching people crying their hearts out over people they haven't even met is pathetic.

It's called having empathy and sympathy, two similar but different things. Caring only about yourself, although you did list the kids, is being self centered and anti social. The opposite of this is Civism. Going too far with selfishness is APD or Narcissism. These are easy terms to look up. It also doesn't have to be church oriented, although those who are good Christians do have feelings for others they don't yet know.

There are millions of people who are emotional now seeing Iran's people celebrating with this possible regime over throwing, as they've lived it and know more than others how it is. Putting yourself in their shoes and feeling what they feel is empathy. You either are one way or the other, and it comes from childhood.

31 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

Are you volunteering to be one of those casualties?

Hello mate, it's nice to talk to you again.

We got off on the wrong foot the other day.

I prefer not to volunteer my life is too good.

I'm living in the dream

9 hours ago, unblocktheplanet said:

All it takes is enough of us refusing, enough of us speaking out.

Yeah, yeah! We get it! Go ahead and start your club you always dreamt of.

1 hour ago, scottiejohn said:

Are you volunteering to be one of those casualties?

Soon, I'm 75. Wait for it!

17 minutes ago, Gottfrid said:

Yeah, yeah! We get it! Go ahead and start your club you always dreamt of.

Had it in the Vietnam peace and antidraft movement (US), the antilogging movement (Canada). I have been arrested dozens of times for protests and served a fair amount in prison for it.

In Thailand, I co-founded both Freedom Against Censorship (FACT) and the Nonviolent Conflict Workshop. It doesn't require any kind of joining. All it requires is speaking out.

2 hours ago, fredwiggy said:

. Caring only about yourself, although you did list the kids, is being self centered and anti social

It also shows psychopathic tendencies.

2 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

I prefer not to volunteer my life is too good.

I'm living in the dream

Is that why you volunteer others to die?

7 hours ago, fittobethaied said:

and HE says that sometimes one's thoughts, and not just their evil doings, break the Commandments.

The Commandments. People needed to be told explicitly that killing was bad. That's how barbaric they were at the time and infantile the religious teachings were. And not sure we've improved that much in 2000 years.

8 hours ago, fredwiggy said:

It's called having empathy and sympathy, two similar but different things. Caring only about yourself, although you did list the kids, is being self centered and anti social. The opposite of this is Civism. Going too far with selfishness is APD or Narcissism. These are easy terms to look up. It also doesn't have to be church oriented, although those who are good Christians do have feelings for others they don't yet know.

There are millions of people who are emotional now seeing Iran's people celebrating with this possible regime over throwing, as they've lived it and know more than others how it is. Putting yourself in their shoes and feeling what they feel is empathy. You either are one way or the other, and it comes from childhood.

There's a huge difference between feeling empathy or sympathy for say the parents of those girls killed by the US in Iran and the pathetic, sycophantic, ridiculous outpouring of grief for some dizzy bint like "Lady" Di.

5 hours ago, MIke B Bad said:

There's a huge difference between feeling empathy or sympathy for say the parents of those girls killed by the US in Iran and the pathetic, sycophantic, ridiculous outpouring of grief for some dizzy bint like "Lady" Di.

People feel empathy or sympathy for others because this is what they learned from their parents in childhood. if they weren't taught or learned by watching, they'll not have it, unless it's learned outside the home, but the home from 0-17 years old is where almost all of care is learned for others. You either have it or you don't, and it isn't just for certain people but for all others who are going through hard times or suffered a loss. I've always felt bad for what the Jews went through in World War 2, to this day, and I wasn't yet born when it happened but learned about if afterwards.

21 hours ago, KhunLA said:

That didn't take long, and Trump enters another thread, not about him, within the first page.

Another Trump bashing thread in the making. Well done

Unless one is living under a rock, or a shepherd in Outer Mongolia, the actions of Trump are affecting everyone on the planet.

It doesn't take an Einstein to understand those actions are doing far more harm than good.

14 hours ago, scottiejohn said:

Is that why you volunteer others to die?

Where did I say that?