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Learning From The Past When to Give Up
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Huan Yi Member Ascendant
since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688Waukegan 
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. I’m reading about the Indian Mutiny of 1857 and one thing has often struck as it now relates to Iraq. However kind the Western hand, it is still a Western hand in control and will be often bitterly even lethally resented as an attack on native culture however oppressive and violent to Western eyes that culture may be. This is something we can’t hope to understand. It’s like a cop attacked by a woman he just saved from being beaten by her husband, ( which happens in the States). At some point the cop may just walk away. I remember a Japanese story from a few centuries ago where a wife falls to the seduction of a passerby. The husband loves his wife and is willing to forgive and forget, but it is the women, (including her), who insist he kill his wife and then seek revenge upon her seducer. . |
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Essorant Member Elite
since 2002-08-10
Posts 4769Regina, Saskatchewan; Canada |
"...When to Give Up" Never! |
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Huan Yi Member Ascendant
since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688Waukegan |
It reminds me of 1860. For the average man in Michigan the South was just as far away. Why should he then care, must less risk his life because down there they kept slaves . . . It begs the question, at what point does a culture's practices, (be it slavery to female mutilation), morally demand intervention by outsiders. John |
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rwood Member Elite
since 2000-02-29
Posts 3793Tennessee |
Incidentally, Ownership is a very compelling factor of the examples you gave. Is it morals, or the balance of power? |
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Huan Yi Member Ascendant
since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688Waukegan |
. “Is it morals, or the balance of power?” Or more specifically, when does morality overcome the practical considerations of balance of power? When does who we think we are become so important that we, individually or as a culture ,are willing to die for it? . |
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