A muslim world?

[tinaf]

Not at all, but I was addressing a point that suggested we should be circumspect when dealing with people because they can be duplicitous.

 

I like everyone until they give me a reason to do otherwise.

It's as easy to have positive thoughts as negative and just as easy to smile than it is to frown.

[Mecky]

On that basis, should I hyperventilate every time I come across a group of men with shaven heads?

 

Here we go again, another attempt at disreditation through absurdity.

[boyfriday]

This one did, her story is a tragedy.

 

http://news.scotsman.com/beslanschoolsiege/The-women-with-death-at.2561572.jp

 

At least unlike many of the female terrorists in Chechnya she was only drugged and treated like a slave, and sexual abuse was not a part of her conditioning.

 

As flamingjimmy said dismissing these people as psychopaths whilst convenient misses and avoids the fact that many terrorists are exploited victims.

 

I wasn't dismissing these people as psychopaths, or leaving it as a futile explanation for their behaviour. I also wasn't really thinking of the people who act because they have a gun pointed at their heads, as they would behave differently if that wasn't the case.

[boyfriday]

Here we go again, another attempt at disreditation through absurdity.

 

..I chose the tone deliberately, why is it any more absurd than your post which I responded to?

[boyfriday]

I like everyone until they give me a reason to do otherwise.

It's as easy to have positive thoughts as negative and just as easy to smile than it is to frown.

 

I'm firmly in that camp too

[Jason Bourne]

They didn't do a bad job themselves on those oil felds

 

But white phosphorous creates a much more spectacular effect, wouldn't you agree?

 

x

[Mecky]

..I chose the tone deliberately, why is it any more absurd than your post which I responded to?

 

Because my reply is fact, people will say anything if they believe it will benefit them, even it is contrary to their principles/beliefs.

[tinaf]

But white phosphorous creates a much more spectacular effect, wouldn't you agree?

 

x

 

You would need to ask the Iraqi or iranian people about that, they chucked enough at each other.

[tinaf]

Because my reply is fact, people will say anything if they believe it will benefit them, even it is contrary to their principles/beliefs.

 

I won't...........

[boyfriday]

Because my reply is fact, people will say anything if they believe it will benefit them, even it is contrary to their principles/beliefs.

 

I didn't disagree with your point, but mine was that we shouldn't alter our behaviour negatively towards people because of that possibility..as I say I don't hyperventilate when I encounter men with shaved heads-it would be ridiculous.