If it's nothing special, then nothing we do is special.
We either are nothing but animals, or our ability to think and feel and express those feelings to others makes us something more.
An attitude of "tough luck" is as useless to the species' survival as an attitude of "no one at all ever must be hurt by anything nope nope nope".
I happen to be very much in favor of the latter... AS AN IDEAL.
I realize it ain't gonna happen.
If this fucking war of choice had been actually justified in any way, rather than something we were blatantly and conspicuously lied into... if Saddam had actually been the threat they said he was, the threat he hadn't ever really been, certainly not the threat he was before the end of the first Gulf War... if the shitheels and asshats and ratbastards currently (and possibly illegally, see 2000/2004 election results) occupying the White House actually had anything resembling a plan besides perpetual maintenance of their own power and money and that of their fellows and henchmen... I might have the slightest sympathy with the notion of "tough luck" in this case.
I don't. Because they didn't.
Sgt. Ramos was sent to die for as many wrong reasons as possible. That's not "tough luck". That's a fuckin' war crime.
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branchandroot
Excuse Me, But I've Gotta Fuckin' Rant
Date: 2007-03-20 03:32 am (UTC)We either are nothing but animals, or our ability to think and feel and express those feelings to others makes us something more.
An attitude of "tough luck" is as useless to the species' survival as an attitude of "no one at all ever must be hurt by anything nope nope nope".
I happen to be very much in favor of the latter... AS AN IDEAL.
I realize it ain't gonna happen.
If this fucking war of choice had been actually justified in any way, rather than something we were blatantly and conspicuously lied into... if Saddam had actually been the threat they said he was, the threat he hadn't ever really been, certainly not the threat he was before the end of the first Gulf War... if the shitheels and asshats and ratbastards currently (and possibly illegally, see 2000/2004 election results) occupying the White House actually had anything resembling a plan besides perpetual maintenance of their own power and money and that of their fellows and henchmen... I might have the slightest sympathy with the notion of "tough luck" in this case.
I don't. Because they didn't.
Sgt. Ramos was sent to die for as many wrong reasons as possible. That's not "tough luck". That's a fuckin' war crime.