Dave wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:56:09 -0800, Stephen Trapani
said:

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.

Q.E.D.

And now you allege that the majority of Afghanis have had relatives
kidnapped and killed by the Taliban? What is your support for that
proposition?

Of course those were just two examples of the numerous different types
of brutality and oppression the Taliban is famous for.

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.

As I've said before, I'm not backing the Taliban. My interest is in
intellectual honesty and truth. I ask you to support the propositions you
put forth, and you're unable to do so. Sputtering indignance is not an
adequate substitute.

I'm not going to write out a long description of the Taliban rule in
Afghanistan because you're too lazy to type a few words into google. Why
would I do that? I provided you with two good sources, but you said you
had no need to educate yourself.

And you *are* backing the Taliban because you continue to deny that they
were brutal and hated by their people and refuse to even look into the
matter yourself, probably because you know what you will find. And you
don't want to have your nice little fantasy world blown right out of the
water, where everyone respects everyone else's way of living, where we
are all equally good and just and only see things from a different
perspective, where the US is in no danger at all and has no
responsibility to fight evil people.

Stephen