Why don't we see each other as people? Why don't we realize that just because they may not have the same political views or religious views as we do, that they are people too? They have two legs, two arms, two hands - generally speaking. Their blood is red, like yours and mine. Why do we see them as 'the enemy' instead of seeing them as what they really are. A mother, or father. A son or a daughter. Different causes don't change the fact that we are all human. My religion teaches us to love one another. Why is that so hard? Why do we have such a hard time remembering the mortality of others? In a war we go and we kill - why? They are people too. Do we forget this? Why can't we set aside differences and see each other - really see each other?
2007-01-23 11:52:00 · 22 answers · asked by Je veux changer le monde 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Desiree J, you are a fool. Did I claim to be a 'Christian'. I have no loyalty to those who are true hypocrites. I am a different form of Christianity. It's the REAL Christianity. Not fundamentalist lies.
2007-01-23 11:58:59 · update #1
Hate requires dehumanization. If you allow one to keep the qualities that make them human in your eyes, you begin to see they are not really all that far off from where you are. Then, you are no better than they. So, one makes the enemy less than human, less than the self, in order so that their conscience can deal with it.
2007-01-23 12:01:18 · answer #1 · answered by genaddt 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes. This is why God says to love your neighbor, the 2nd most important commandment. (With most important being love God himself)
Loving others is hard because humans are selfish deep down.
We go to war when we sharply disagree and cant handle it any other way.
Soldiers realize that the people on the other side are people but serving your country for the greater good or what you believe to be the greater good is more important than any 1 single life.
We cant set aside differences and see each other as long as the world is evil (which it will be forever) and humanity is what it is- FALLEN.
2007-01-23 12:10:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I hadn't ever really thought of it that way. They were just them and we were us - and we were right. But then, there are two sides to every story, aren't there? I don't know why we don't see them as people. Seems like they get hurt just like us. The only reason we go in and kill anyone is because we don't agree with them. I don't know why we don't really see our enemies as people. Things might be easier if we did.
2007-01-23 12:02:11 · answer #3 · answered by The Pope 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Is this prose? It doesn't make much sense taken literally, but it's a nice piece if you look at it as prose. Why don't we see our enemies as people?
Because sometimes they don't see us as people. for those people, there is no reasoning, no setting aside of differences because they don't want to do so. They want to wipe us from the earth so that they don't have to deal with people of different views. In these cases, there's only one thing to do. You have to kill them before they can you. make them bleed red, as you would put it, before they spill your blood. War is a necessity because there will always be those who don't see that It isn't.
Nice Pulitzer Prize winning avatar, though.
2007-01-23 11:56:43 · answer #4 · answered by go2bermuda 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's just how humans work. You have to dehumanize your enemies before you can fight them. This is why people can go to war and not turn into serial killers when they return home. To the soldier, they weren't killing other people with families, they were defeating the enemy in order to protect their homeland.
2007-01-23 11:57:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because we all have sin living in our members. There are not only good and kind people in the world and coming to terms with those who are not is full of difficulty and problems. It is the human condition. But no matter how good a person is at putting others before themself they still have to reckon for their own sin before God. If we choose to believe in Jesus and are forgiven then there will be those who hate us. In the end we all come to know that everyone stands before God on their own.
2007-01-23 12:05:24 · answer #6 · answered by hisgloryisgreat 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would think and hope that all Christians are seeing everyone else as people. While insulting words may sometimes lead us to sling one back, I believe {hope} that most people here really enjoy the Y!A ride. But I doubt if we will all ever set aside our differences.
2007-01-23 12:04:15 · answer #7 · answered by Heaven's Messenger 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
To kill someone you have to think of them as an abstraction, the enemy, a non being. This is necessary in war and its necessary in hate, without it there would be no justification for the people who commit the crime.
2007-01-23 11:55:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
What would you have us do? Just sit and wait on them to kill us? Would that be a better way. Americans are the most passive people in the world. But, they become aggressive when someone kills their people.
2007-01-23 11:57:24 · answer #9 · answered by Desperado 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think most of us are aware of this but we allow ourselves to be coerced by others to fill a personal or political agenda. We have a choice to not kill others but may have to face death ourselves as a result. Just so you are prepared for that.
2007-01-23 12:12:09 · answer #10 · answered by Erica R 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋