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Originally posted by theking
You are attempting to categorize and simplify a human beings actions and/or reactions. You are trying to apply "black and white" when there are many shades of grey.
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No. I am saying flat-out that I don't care about anyone's gray areas, blue areas or yellow areas. I am saying that some things in life, some traits we possess and decisions we make boil down to nothing more than choice.
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An adult that makes "consious decisions" is influenced by everything that he/she has experienced from the moment of birth, even though he/she is not consious of that hidden influence. A very simple exampe of this is, what is your favorite color? Then ask yourself why this is your favorite color and not some other color? Please feel free to disagree, that is your "concious choice", er maybe?
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So, because my favorite color is blue, my parents ignored me, my siblings bullied me, that I'm now a slave to what I've become as a result? See, I think that's bullshit, and I think it's a major copout. What I'm saying is, if someone is a mouthy asshole with a bad attitude, it may not be their choice as to their upbringing and all the conflict that may have happened in their past, but it certainly IS their choice if they decide to continue being a mouthy asshole or not. People can change.
It's like the person whose parents smoked saying that they can't quit smoking. More bullshit. Quitting smoking may be a tough decision to stick to, but who ever said that decisions must always be easy?
Another example is people who abuse their spouse. If people are such a slave to their heritage and upbringing, then why don't we just shoot these people instead of trying to rehabilitate and teach them to change their ways? No, sorry, if you don't like something about your personality, then change it. If you're too negative and cynical, work on being more positive. If you're a chronic smartass that thinks he's always right, choose to work on your people skills. If you have a pissy temper and tend to let your rage get out of control, there are things you can choose such as anger management groups to work on that. It's about choice. Like, a lot of people here will have an urge to argue with me, probably just for the fuck of it. Again, it's about choice, to piss or not to piss.
As for the sniper.... I don't deny he/she/they have a lot of balls for doing this. I don't deny that, for eluding the cops thus far, they must be quite smart. I never denied any of that, but none of that matters, nor is it the point here. I've stated repeatedly why I think this sniping asshole is a coward, I've stated the specific reasons more than once here. You people seem to think that all cowards are dumb or something, however I'm sure there have been university professors and Rhodes scholars that have been abject pants-wetting cowards at some point in their lives. Some want to confuse this issue with that of military action? Whatever, this just shows you are confused. If someone here can't see the difference between this sniper shooting kids and tourists and bus drivers and regular people, and an army attacking the enemy to defend it's borders, then there is something definitely wrong with your thinking.