Ruphus -> RE: Spanish Village called "Kill the Jews" (Apr. 18 2014 10:28:26)
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ORIGINAL: BarkellWH So the sacrifice of thousands from tribes and groups who were obligated to provide the sacrificial victims to their Aztec rulers, to have their living, beating hearts cut out with obsidian knives wielded by Aztec priests who then wore the victims flayed skin as a cloak, was a morally superior act to the policy and attitude of the Conquistadores because it represented compliance with mythologically-based meaning? Are you suggesting that good intentions and acts committed within one's own cultural framework justify any act, regardless how heinous the act and its effect on others? That, my friend, begins a slippery slope that leads to the justification of any act, regardless how heinous, as long as it is committed within the cultural framework of the perpetrator. The Spaniards were following the policies and attitudes that represented their cultural framework every bit as much as were the Aztecs. To absolve the Aztecs of their heinous acts while condemning the Spaniards for theirs is to judge them using a double standard and is intellectually dishonest. I suppose today it would go by the term "political correctness," much as I hate that phrase. You are right. The difference on micro level will not level out the macro situation, And all that counts in the end is the actual effect of an action. With the fancy of the conductor being respective to himself and irrelevant to the victim. That is why our highest priority should be objectivity, so that we shall spare the environment any of arbitrary treatment through imagination or mythology. - Which besides is not in the sense of current political correctness. PC since distortions of the Nazi Reich has gone overboard in the West and halted at an "any culture is preservable in its own right"-bull shiet. ( Last time for instance proofen with the rejection of parliamental proposal to prohibit circumcision of babies / children in Germany, months ago.) Coming from the case of being misled by a popular doctrin, yet responsible: You are not aware of being in such a situation yourself. Though not apparently bound to blood-shed, you are bowing to another "Aztec standard". Which is that in your societal outline the inalienability of labour value has been firmly concealed and pushed out of view, only to then make the appropriation of people´s labour, life time and life quality legitimate official custom. Which as third´s disposal stands for actual slavery and incapacitation, notwithstanding the superficially seen invisibility of chains. And while I sincerely applaud your basical condeming of arbitrainess, it must be pointed out that your own life draft contains the suppression of the secondarily most significant of human rights ( as it has all the other ones consequentially following ). Though kept under deck, your ship has the armour and horses on board too. quote:
ORIGINAL: estebanana Maybe in one city the priests took a reverent view of this as religious ceremony and in another the guy just liked tearing hearts out of people because he was a sick puppy. The sick puppy is being discussed much too little, though it roams our living space in huge hosts. Every day the unspeakable goes on in uncounted numbers behind closed doors of institutions, homes and sheds. Unfortunately, the becoming of a sadist is much too easy. Often times it takes merely the disfiguring of one or two of the parents for an infantile character of lying, stealing and animal torturing to come about. Let alone criminal cases through child misuse. To produce a mind-set that senses itself so unfeeling and inferiour that it will enjoy agony of thirds as an elevator ( in the sense of "It is not happening to me!") may take only months of misuse, and it seems to be occuring all the time. Where feudalism / capitalism leaves parental care a stepchild of no time and emotional / pedagogical limitation, just the more. Sick puppies should become a public topic; and the sooner the better! Their doings are exceeding any horror one could ever imagine; with the late young victims of internet mobbing indicating only the tip of a sadistic iceberg, while torture of exposed pets and cattle will vastly stay unnoticed to begin with. Ruphus
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