Landmines have been banned because of the terrible cost to human life. Yet cluster bombs, which are air dropped landmines are being dropped in Afghanistan. Thes bombs are not accurate, and many of the bomblets do not explode and lay around on the ground just like landmines. Hundreds of people in what used to be Yugoslavia have been killed since the war ended, killed by these air dropped landmines.
Mack stated that the USA has done more good for the world than any single nation. I do not know if that is true or not but would be interested to read some examples. People are right-America is seen as bully in many parts of the world and a country that does what it wants regradless. Granada, Vietnam, Nicaragua and loads more. But then this is the only info we get fed via the media. So we only get the bad stuff. I am glad people who think it is wrong to criticise their country are not in power. Kakki's point about not being able to pigeonhole herlsef and her political beliefs is a good one. I think that is how it should be. I have no idea how mine would be classified. I have different views on different thinsg. I am anti blood sports. Iam anti war but I think Bin Laden and his henchmen should be destroyed, meaning killed, as I think it is ethicsl to kill a person or person if by doing so we save many many others. yet i think it ethically wrong to kill.BUT I do not think bombing Afgahistan iis right. The killing of the 10 year old son of the Taliban leader is not going to help us at all. I am anti captial punsihment. I do not like the idea of abortion but it is not my business, or anyone elses, what a woman does with her body. She is the only one entitled to decide. I think adultery is wrong. I think people must decide for themselves how to live their lives and accpet the consequences of their behaviour and decsions. I think the capitalist system is wrong but am not clever enough to come up with a different solution. the idea that we live in equal opportunity soceites is bullshit. Meritocracies do not work and are biased against those who lack intelligence, who may have illness, or disabilites or whatever. i tend to think that wealth is wrong, that soem people cannot eat daily and others have billions of pounds/dollars, several houses etc. yet i'd love the money. hypocrite that I am. If I can outearn otehrs becasue I am gifted or more clever why shouldn't i? yet I thin k this way we run society is wrong and that we shouldn't be able to get rich off the baxcks of others and shouldn't ignore the plight of those who are less able. Hypocrite that I am. I don't think it is right for govt to tell me how to live my life and interfere in it. I think it isw rong to legislate about sexual matters, except for the protection of children. But I do support legislation that does interfere in the lives of those preople like the National Front, British National Party, here in the UK(KKK types). hypocrite that I am. I think racism is wrong but I am racist in subtle ways. I am not a believer in the class system and think all are eqaul and should bet reated as such but I look down on trailer trash, what we call common people! I am against sexism yet tend to be prejudiced against my own sex. I see men as dangerous. I think a woman should be free to do as she please but cringe when I hear a woman has a one night stand or lots of partners but do cringe when a man does so. I despise the macho ethic, yet am often attracted to that type of man! hypocrite that I am. ( of course we all have experiences that colour these things, upbringing, traumas etc, but it still a prejudice). Whilst I think it wrong to kill, like capital punishment, I do support killing in some circumstances, like those stated earlier.Hypocrite that I am. I am a pacifist by nature. But I would kill you if you were trying to harm me and mine. I wouldn't just stand there and let you do it. Had I been on that plane and had a chance to kill the hijackers, i would have. Mind you I know I would have been so scared and distressed, I'd have been useless. I strongly believe in 'thou shalt not kill' and yet I support euthanaisia. I have watched porn. I have a negative attitude to those who make them and star in them.I think 'how could you? what if your friends, family, neighbours etc saw you? Hypocrite that I am. I think nudity is natural and nothing wrong with it. yet i think it not good for women to display themselves on Page Three(a daily newsper thing here-newspapers have a nude woman on Page Three) or in Playboy. yet don't feel the same way when a man does it. hypocrite that I am. I think criminals should not be locked up so long and when they are should be treated with dignity and respect and rehabilitaed rather than punished. Yet i think anyone who absues a child should be in prison for LIFE, emeaning life. It is a childs life we are playing with when we decide these people are no longer a danger. So all in all, I hold comntradictory beliefs and am a hypocrite. Just the same as everyone else. I also have no answers for the problems in the world. It is easy to say, yes well, if we loved eachother and followed such obviously correct principles as having positive regard for ewacother then the world would be okay. Huh! If only! In the end we can only be honest with ourselves and grow the best we can. -- bw colin DAK,BRO GC, 950i, 940,860,864,890, 260,Silver 830,860, 580 and 270, Passap 6000, Duo80. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tantra-apso.com
