Quite the dissection but the point was and is...
Ethics, morals and loyalty.
Unless I've misunderstood I can't see where they were addressed.
I won't go through your post and dissect it because of time, some relevancies and non relevancies.
Any society must have rule of law. Without that there is anarchy and through, what some seem to think is open mindedness, is really the loss of the necessary base on which life must build.
Change such as the industrial revolution and the technological revolution is good. However, change that breaks down the base on which society needs to build is wrong. There is enough in "scary" history to prove that point.
I accept your point of view but cannot agree with it. Nice to live in a free country. Neither of us will be shot.
As a side bar:- I know our U.S. friends reading this will not agree but you can't get bin Laden because the Saudis' are controlling the US in this area. They have quite the clout (oil and $600 billion invested) and are masters at using it discreetly.
**************************Vancouver Femme Fatale said:An infinite number of truths exist...as many as there are human minds to conceive them. And they change second-to-second just as all things do. Those who cling hardest to the "truth" are those most intent on shoving it down the throats of other people in order to control them.
Probably the same number, if not the exact same societies that refused to recognize the need for change as a means to survival. Adapt or die.
Asian capitalist overlords versus North American capitalist overlords. The king is dead; long live the king. Feudal society never stopped anywhere; it just decorated itself like a Christmas tree with 'reforms'.
Again...the king is dead; long live the king. Assholes with more money than me aren't news.
It's been changing every second of the day since time began.
I think considering oneself a citizen of a particular country and even a particular society is shortsighted. I'm a citizen of the world; at the moment, Canada, and more specifically Vancouver is my neighbourhood; however, I've got a passport, and I'll use it if I think I'd be better off elsewhere. Being part of a doom-fearing and xenophobic population on a particular chunk of real estate doesn't seem particularly useful. Life is short; I refuse to become less than what I can be because we live in scary times. History is simply a chronological account of scary times; there was never a Golden Age, and never will be. Life is, by definition scary.
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Ethics, morals and loyalty.
Unless I've misunderstood I can't see where they were addressed.
I won't go through your post and dissect it because of time, some relevancies and non relevancies.
Any society must have rule of law. Without that there is anarchy and through, what some seem to think is open mindedness, is really the loss of the necessary base on which life must build.
Change such as the industrial revolution and the technological revolution is good. However, change that breaks down the base on which society needs to build is wrong. There is enough in "scary" history to prove that point.
I accept your point of view but cannot agree with it. Nice to live in a free country. Neither of us will be shot.
As a side bar:- I know our U.S. friends reading this will not agree but you can't get bin Laden because the Saudis' are controlling the US in this area. They have quite the clout (oil and $600 billion invested) and are masters at using it discreetly.