kasgarinn wrote: Complicit is perhaps too harsh of a word, I think there is a need for a group to accept what has happened and to condemn it in public both to show the members of that group and the world that this isn't a behaviour which is accepted.
What word would you choose?
You're kidding, right?kasgarinn wrote: For instance in the columbine incident, it should really have been the students who took it upon themselves to change things, not the teachers or parents to willfully force limitations upon them.
You want to eliminate the responsibility of the teachers and parents---the aduts whose willful ignorance (shall I say complicity) contributed to the culture that allowed Columbine to happen---and transfer it to traumatized students?
Now I agree that the students in quesiton needed to seriously reexamine and change their attitudes and behaviors toward their fellow classmates. But the analogy you're using is flawed. You're seeing the shooters as radical Muslims and their classmates as mainstream Muslims.
This is far more accurate: Dylan and Eric were the guys flying planes into buildings and their classmates were the United States.
Doesn't make what they did right but does put it into perspective.
At what point does the US step up and take some responsibility for decades of exploitative foreign policy?
And while you're at it, I'd like to see you answer Laik's question:
Laik wrote:Exactly what do you want to see happen?
