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This is not a metaphor just a rough very rough calculation.
:D ...but hey, you know those Objectivists, they all look alike.
I could care less what the next guy thinks 98% of the time except when that guy/girl has a greater than usual potential to scream allah akbar and go boom while I'm shopping, drinking coffee and writing my next novel, attending a concert, or any peaceful thing in my life that happens to take place in a crowd. An honor killing (muslim, as if I need to say it) took place less than 10 miles form my house.
Yes, it is us against them. We have reason. Notice how CNN avoids the term honor killing in their article - thats the inherent danger.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/04/15/a...
I'm being sarcastic, but I've been beaten an d berated here over this "try to invade my part of the Gulch" defensive posture too many times not to say anything.
Or, check premises and read more carefully the things you aim at from your keyboard. I don't want to be a casualty of "friendly fire".
If you read carefully, I am not arguing against effective, proper measures of self-defense. When 'we' point a gun at someone, we'd better have a good Reason. If 'we' pull the trigger, we should be damn sure they are our enemy. Simplistic, irrational group-think doesn't lend itself to the fact based, supportable evidence we need to make good decisions.
What many Muslim and Buddhist adherents share is an inordinate hatred of Western civilization. Much of that anger stems from colonialist abuse, while part of it is a perception the Muslims have about the West serving evil by impeding what they see as the ultimate victory of Islam. Some of the Buddhist hostility (there's an oxymoron!) is distaste for Western materialism, while colonial days left a bad taste in their mouths as well.
To quote Rhett Butler, "Frankly Scarlett, I don't give a damn!" This is all about living in the past and festering wounds for old abuses best left behind. Until the addicted victim class can get past their self pity and do something for themselves, I have no time nor wealth to spend on them.
According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, 72% of the current wave of Middle Eastern refugees are men between the ages of 18 and 40. Those are draft dodgers, who don't want to become cannon fodder for one group or another, and I sympathize, but enabling their cowardice doesn't solve their problems, and damn sure only causes me headaches.
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