Darkwind
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The fact remains, if you are a decent human being, no act could drive you to do what Hamas has done. Ben Shapiro gets it exactly right.
No territorial dispute would cause you to butcher babies. No squabble over territory would cause you to rape and abduct women. No so-called āoccupationā would cause you to kidnap entire families or burn them alive in their homes.
Thereās an intellectual self-centeredness that predominates among a lot of people in the West. They think everybody thinks like them. They see people do something truly evil and think to themselves, āWell, that is terrible ā but the only reason I would do something like that is if something truly awful happened to me. After all, people are generally reasonable, generally peaceable, generally decent, arenāt they? What awful circumstance could force someone into such terrible, evil behavior?ā
āIf only someone had just made a few concessions, dismantled a few settlements, offered a little more land. After all, we all want the same thing, right?ā
No, we donāt.
You can all tell yourself these comforting little lies before you see the pictures of what true evil does. But you canāt tell those lies to yourself after you see the pictures, after you see the videos, after you listen to the audio.
Hereās the point. Nothing anyone has ever done to you or could ever do to you would cause you to do these things.
No territorial dispute would cause you to butcher babies. No squabble over territory would cause you to rape and abduct women. No so-called āoccupationā would cause you to kidnap entire families or burn them alive in their homes.