I honestly don’t know how the people who argue that, basically, “their culture is every bit as good as ours,” can twist their arguments to accomodate this episode (below).
Perhaps they can argue it, and it might be interesting to see the better-written of these arguments, like the best of the Jesuitical arguments on how the earth, in spite of Copernicus’, Kepler’s, Galileo’s and Newton’s discoveries, could still be the static center of the universe.
We all start out equal – I’ll give the moral relativists that. But then we make choices, and act on them. And we are the sum of those actions. And just as in Newton’s calculus a function can be defined by the changes it undergoes over time, so can a human be defined by the choices that he or she makes during a lifetime.
We are the choices we make.
CNN.com – U.S. expects more attacks in Iraq – Mar 31, 2004
U.S. officials said the civilians were killed in a grenade attack by suspected insurgents.
Afterward, residents cheered and pulled charred bodies from burning vehicles and hung them from a Euphrates River bridge.
Crowds gathered around the vehicles and dragged at least one of the bodies through the streets, witnesses said.
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