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| Pamela Bone: The folly of blaming ourselves |
| 2006-09-10 |
| What is needed to fight this war on the Islamists and the ideas behind this war is moral clarity - not moral relativism and a widespread cynicism about political motives WE'VE been watching again, these past days, those images from the day the world changed. We've seen again the towers crumbling, the people running, the ash raining, the bodies falling. We've watched the people standing in the streets, staring in horrified fascination, their hands over their mouths. And we realise that while we are watching them watching, our hands are covering our mouths, too. What is this hand-over-mouth thing humans do? The reason we feel this horror watching is that as human beings we empathise with the suffering of other human beings. Nearly all people have this empathetic response, according to psychologists. Those who don't are psychopaths, and they make up only one or two per cent of the population. |
| Posted by:Fred |