11-07-2023, 01:34 PM
(11-06-2023, 07:16 PM)Dill Wrote: Agree with the bolded.
And what you are describing used to be called "black-and-white" thinking, a cognitive inability to walk and chew gum at the same time.
"Both sides did bad" breaks a circuit. One side must always good and the other always bad. If there is evidence the good guys could be in the wrong, or even a question that bad guys could be in the right, it will set off an internal struggle for rationalization to regain the strict good/bad equilibrium.
"Sympathy for innocent civilians on both sides" or even refusal to deny anyone's humanity is reduced to "siding with THEM"--the bad guys, who should only be considered "savages" or "vermin" or human disease who have always brought their own doom on themselves.
It's not possible, from this perspective, to support UNIVERSAL human rights.
Except Israel's very existence is how new terrorists are made. Until you, and others, acknowledge that fact and take steps to address it this will never end, or even start to end. Any steps by supporters of Israel to rectify their wrongdoings will produce zero real world results until that happens.
