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Originally Posted by RANDY P
Is there a place on this planet where this doesn't happen? It's a human thing.
rjp
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Randy,
I don't mean the killing. In that regard I agree with you. But it's the rhetoric and the threats that passes as idle/normal discourse. It's like the former SOP during an airline high jacking. It was to sit back and wait for the plane to land..... normally. No more. People have to be more proactive and denounce hate speech and physical threats from those sources..... including this forum, btw.
I'd like to think the US is a somewhat civilized society. I do agree with the perp in that illiteracy and ignorance is a good recipe for a disinterested and/or ill-informed society - not to support his warped views, but in order to understand and deal with a more complex world. However, like the perp, it's all in one's POV, hopefully not one as narrow, distorted and skewed as this guy's.
Sherwood