Bin Laden is dead.

Blacksword wrote: The show of elation at his death is hardly surprising given the bad boy stardom the western media has afforded him for the last decade. He has become the face of terror, and as such, many people may be inclined to think - wrongly in my opinion - that this is a major victory. In the west many of us take a very narrow view on how the world works. We think in terms of 'good vs bad' when in reality there are merely different and completely incompatible perspectives, which will never be fully reconciled.

Yeah, it's not so much a major victory because he was just a figurehead at this point, but no, moral relativism is nonsense. 

Edited by Henry Plainview - May 02 2011 at 10:45

Equality 7-2521 wrote: Catcher10 wrote: Equality 7-2521 wrote: I find celebrating anyone's death, no matter how terrible a murderer, a bit unsettling.    Why? People of the world have been celebrating death for 1,000's of years. There is no right and wrong when it comes to peoples emotions....unless of course you live in a country where your feelings may get you killed or jailed for life. History has proven their are no moral laws when it comes to war.   Yeah...

On one hand, he's completely right. On the other...

65% of people would kill because a man in a lab coat told him to.

Ugh, humanity.

 

Gamemako wrote:  On one hand, he's completely right. On the other... 65% of people would kill because a man in a lab coat told him to. Ugh, humanity.

I think that's an, uh, overly broad interpretation of the Milgram experiments. 

Well, today I read lots of comments of politicians (and even scarier, the CIA head) saying that "we have to be even more alert than before". Good. Patriot Act forever! The comic about the TSA people, that can go down... They will probably finally force strip search one day, since they are already starting to say that there are rumors that the terrorists have a nuclear weapon hidden somewhere in Europe.... 

Osama is not really dead. It was a lookalike. He's living quietly in rural Wisconsin, sharing a flat with Marilyn Monroe.

Meanwhile Elvis is flipping burgers in a roadside cafe on route 66.

conspiracy theories dream this will be.

 

Hawkwise wrote: Osama bin Laden Hide & Seek Champion 1957 - 2011

Actually it was only from 2001 to 2011. Also, that joke was painfully old 12 hours ago. 

Henry Plainview wrote: I think that's an, uh, overly broad interpretation of the Milgram experiments.

Not really. After all, humanity exterminated around 12 million people in the early 40s that way.

The truth is, obedience and conformity are necessary for social interaction. Going horribly wrong now and then is just the price we pay.

The T wrote: A brief alternative view of the events...

*sigh*. I would debunk, but you really can't argue with a conspiracy theorist: they'll just call you a part of the conspiracy.

Gamemako wrote: The T wrote: A brief alternative view of the events...  *sigh*. I would debunk, but you really can't argue with a conspiracy theorist: they'll just call you a part of the conspiracy.

The T wrote: Conspiracy theories aside, I'm not seeing much insanity there... Anyway, he's most likely dead, and the wars will continue and nothing absolutely nothing will have changed.

About that, we can agree. Nothing will change with his death, as I said previously. People will not suddenly awaken to the insanity of molesting one another under guise of safety.

Still, that article was awful. Really? You expect people not to celebrate the news that the killer of 3000 American citizens, a man who has declared war on the United States, has been killed? Staged my ass. And when we can't even keep account of our nuclear warheads, we're expected to be able to locate a single dialysis machine belonging to a man with possibly tens of thousands of followers? Holy hell. I don't know much about Paul Craig Roberts, but he's clearly off his rocker.