DISQUS

noebie · 2 years ago

sometimes i don't even recognize our country any more...fear and hysteria

we stand for law and process, or we stand for nothing

Bryce Moore · 2 years ago

This most definitely goes to revenge. Since the 19 twisted souls that executed the horrendous act itself can't be tried and convicted, and we can't seem to find the person most often blamed with its orchestration, we'll go after the one person we can tie to it through three weak degrees of separation, so at the end of the day someone will have "paid" for it.

Welcome to the new age of fearful paranoia. Once you publicly unabashedly compromise your principles and freedoms to placate a hysterical public that actually believes there is literally a terrorist on every corner, the terrorists don't have to actually do anything - they will have their targets and their targets' leaders swing their emotional and mental wrecking balls for them without ever recognizing it.

Live and let live -- a concept so simple yet seemingly so unachievable. We as a species are capable of such beautiful, kind and wondrous things, but that's often overtaken by the horrific, disgusting, destructive acts we seem to be much more capable of. If we could find a way to stamp out that darkness we could really realize our potential.

chelpixie · 2 years ago

Noebie, I'm afraid we're heading toward nothing.

Bryce, your last paragraph blows me away. We are capable of many things but in our desire to be vindictive we are destructive of the things that we hold or say that we hold dear.

In order to move forward, we have to realize that nothing will nullify the tragedy and the pain of 9/11. Just as for me, nothing will nullify the pain of losing my brother. The only thing we can hope to achieve is peace through doing what is right and what is good.

Revenge that hurts the foundation of our values isn't helping or healing anyone.