Now that I have your attention:
In most wars, one of the first things you do is paint the enemy as not entirely human. They sacrifice babies, they enslave people, they emit flatulence in elevators, that kind of thing. This allows you to treat them in ways that otherwise would be abhorrent.
I've seen the same thing on boards like this across the Internet. People - Christians, Muslims, agnostics and atheists - who are so absolutely certain that they know THE TRUTH that they cannot conceive the possibility that someone who believes differently might be deserving of any kind of rational treatment. We've all seen it here, too. It seems to me that a place like this would be wonderful for gaining some insight into how others think, but with all the shooting going on, it's almost impossible to separate the signal from the noise.
So I guess my question is, why don't we petition Yahoo to change the title of this board to "The Shooting Gallery" and just give it to the trolls?
2007-02-22
13:46:11
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