I'm taking this time to return to the flameboard. Seeing Jay and Omega go at it in a polite a way as possible is quite humorous, and leaves hope.
Anyways, Read the above link, tell us what you think. Personally, I find it scary that most of the problems we face today seem to be solved after such a tragic event.
If someone walked into a building wearing an Afghanistan flag ... or burned an American flag in these troubled times ... well, let's just hope people would be as considerate of them (which, they probably would not).
Speaking of which: a vote.
My Jeep Wrangler has grill guards. Currently, they're painted yellow. I am considering painting them individually red, white, and blue (which would give me, essentially, two of two colors and three of the third color, being that there are 7 grills). Thoughts?
Er, I think. I'm trying to think up a US equivalent here.
And Political Correctness has everything to do wih free speech.
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I'm taking this time to return to the flameboard. Seeing Jay and Omega go at it in a polite a way as possible is quite humorous, and leaves hope.
Thank you, thank you very much.
I may have som other comments but I haven't read the link yet.
Personally, I'm not offended, but I'm rather disgusted. Nationalism == a bad thing, especially at a time like this...
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If someone walked into a building wearing an Afghanistan flag ... or burned an American flag in these troubled times ... well, let's just hope people would be as considerate of them (which, they probably would not).
Somehow I doubt most Americans if not most everyone would be able to identify Afghanistan's flag.
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Nationalism
- Devotion to the interests or culture of one's nation.
-The belief that nations will benefit from acting independently rather than collectively, emphasizing national rather than international goals.
-Aspirations for national independence in a country under foreign domination.
Patriotism
- Love of and devotion to one's country.
Patriotism is good where as nationalism is self destructive in the case of such a multi-cultural nation as the US.
[ September 18, 2001: Message edited by: Obese Penguin ]
Explain why nationalism is a bad thing? Because it serves no useful purpose, and serves many bad purposes.
If people would quit thinking in terms of nations and borders, we wouldn't have a lot of the problems we're having/are about to have. Look at how many people are screaming to nuke Afghanistan. Why? What did Afghanistan ever do to us? It's nothing but a quarter-million square miles of desert and mountains. Maybe we need to do something about the terrorists who happen to be in Afghanistan. Maybe we need to do something about the government that happens to control Afghanistan. But Afghanistan as a whole hasn't done anything to us. Except that people won't think in those terms. They automatically assume that, since someone in Afghanistan attacked people in the US, Afghanistan itself has attacked the US itself. This isn't true.
What needs to happen is an effort by any group that feels offended and/or threatened by the recent attacks (not just the US) against the people who made those attacks and their supporters (not simply the entire country of Afghanistan). But nationalism keeps people from realizing that.
Afghanistan didn't attack the WTC, agents of the Afghanistan government (namely bin Laden) attacked the WTC.
This isnt as easy as Pearl Harbor was , atleast those bombs had a return address.
We need to be 100% sure that the Taliban and Bin Laden were involved before doing anything we could live to regret.
On a side note , if Iraq does turn out to be involved , god help Saddam cause I'm sure this Bush isnt gonna stop at the gates of Bagdhad , indeed god help us all.