Dave wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:25:25 -0800, Stephen Trapani
said:

Don't know about two meter, but I'm not on the side of anyone or anything in
your food fight, other than truth. So when you say "most of the Afghanies
[sic] hate the Taliban," my BS detector lights up and says to me that you're
not in a position to make that judgment based on direct experience. So I ask
for the basis of the conclusion. Your answers to that question have been
less than satisfactory thus far.
So let me see. You educated yourself about the historic brutality of the
Taliban regime and when I said most Afghanis didn't like it, *that* set
off your BS meter??

I didn't have to educate myself on the topic, Steve.

Aha, there's your problem. You need to learn more about the Taliban and
how they treated their citizens.

What set off my BS
meter was your apparent smug assumption, with no supporting evidence, that
the mass of people from this very different culture must necessarily share
your point of view. Might be true. Might not.

Well, unless you think they are monkeys or subhuman in some way, the
same things that hurt you, hurt them. If your father is kidnapped and
killed, if your sister is brutalized and oppressed, if anyone who
objects has to live in constant fear, you hate it and so do they.

I understand that watching Christians being fed to the lions was a very
popular spectator sport in Rome at one time, and that the sponsors of those
events were wildly popular.

The similar stadium executions in Afghanistan were popular also. Does
that mean that either of them a morally good way to treat people? No.
Your "tolerance" of other "cultures" is causing you to support brutality
against people and is immoral. You should change.

Stephen