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Originally Posted by Halcyon
I cant read the news anymore as it is so sad to read such awful news.
Burning, stoning, beheading, etc...What next?
These people are living in the stone age and I find it digusting that anyone could do such things to another human being.
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I have to say I agree with the sentiment about the news. More often than not it's simply depressing.
On the matter of ISIS, IS, IL "living in the stone age", and whilst in no way seeking to excuse or condone their recent executions, I think it's important to note that it wasn't that long ago civilized Western democracies were behaving in a very similar fashion (spectacular lynching being a case in point). Very recently the new king of Saudi Arabia presided over beheadings and the hanging of gay men from cranes - all in public view.
The reality is that we, as a species, are capable of doing incredibly horrific harm and injustices to our fellow man. Clearly, however, when someone else practices and presents for mass public comsumption something which "we" practice or practiced they are labelled "barbarians", "savages", "animals" and all kinds of "monsters" by our supposedly morally superior benchmark.
It would be funny, were it not so tragic.