Food for thought
Due to some real life consequence the food has to wait a bit. Too bad that not all goes as the stomach, or even the body :D pleases.
I just read that Blogger is blocked in Pakistan. Blogger on its own doesn't say or do anything. It's the people that post blogs (still not so used to that word, hmm) in Blogger, that make the "need" to be censored. There is still a long way for Pakistan to go to reach anywhere near to be called normal country. You could claim this to be Western mind, perhaps from the viewpoint of a Pakistani, but a human expressing logical reasoning, even if questiong the state's religion (Islam in the case of Pakistan) should be given a chance to express himself( was about to include /herself, but can't allow for those feministic thinsg to eb chasing me, think of it as of myself then :). I think a mind free to express is sometimes way stronger than a settled and a more secured in the box mind. Get out of your habbits! True I admit my Western bias of logical, in my case quite rational, thinking but you do have to do something if you feel like it is worth it. Simply blogging, or expressing one's thoughts, should not be stopped, but here comes the tricky bit, unless someone is thinking its against his/hers ideals(women can be no less planning, corruptive, ambitious). Clash of ideals is now a different topic. But then bringing it back somewhat into a context, a country can not demand to be viewed, in a positive or a negative way, in the same way, unless it does more or less the same basic, normal things, from my, Western point of view. Pakistan's government has its own ideals. I don't know whether there is a major clash of ideals with its population, but I doubt it. I assume most Pakistani in Pakistan, support the deeds of their government. But if that assumption is true in fact they have to take the resposibilty of their support, those feelings they have towards their ruling people. And this responsibility will mean that they as well regard blogging, or some people expressing renegade ideas, as against the state of Pakistan. That's fine. But then that creates a difference between what is normal in the West and in Pakistan. People should keep that in mind, that values of people differ.
If a person belives in the existence of universal human moral, or values, would not such values be the feeling that is not right and just to kill children, regardless if it is war or not? Similiar would be the case of women's rape, a mass-rape would be even worse. Didn't the god punish Achilles after the pillage of Apollon's temple and the rape of his priestesses. An act clearly marked as negative by the people of the past. If a woman who suffered a rape wants to express herself thorugh a medium, be it a blog, shouldn't it be normal for the general public to let her do so?
I just read that Blogger is blocked in Pakistan. Blogger on its own doesn't say or do anything. It's the people that post blogs (still not so used to that word, hmm) in Blogger, that make the "need" to be censored. There is still a long way for Pakistan to go to reach anywhere near to be called normal country. You could claim this to be Western mind, perhaps from the viewpoint of a Pakistani, but a human expressing logical reasoning, even if questiong the state's religion (Islam in the case of Pakistan) should be given a chance to express himself( was about to include /herself, but can't allow for those feministic thinsg to eb chasing me, think of it as of myself then :). I think a mind free to express is sometimes way stronger than a settled and a more secured in the box mind. Get out of your habbits! True I admit my Western bias of logical, in my case quite rational, thinking but you do have to do something if you feel like it is worth it. Simply blogging, or expressing one's thoughts, should not be stopped, but here comes the tricky bit, unless someone is thinking its against his/hers ideals(women can be no less planning, corruptive, ambitious). Clash of ideals is now a different topic. But then bringing it back somewhat into a context, a country can not demand to be viewed, in a positive or a negative way, in the same way, unless it does more or less the same basic, normal things, from my, Western point of view. Pakistan's government has its own ideals. I don't know whether there is a major clash of ideals with its population, but I doubt it. I assume most Pakistani in Pakistan, support the deeds of their government. But if that assumption is true in fact they have to take the resposibilty of their support, those feelings they have towards their ruling people. And this responsibility will mean that they as well regard blogging, or some people expressing renegade ideas, as against the state of Pakistan. That's fine. But then that creates a difference between what is normal in the West and in Pakistan. People should keep that in mind, that values of people differ.
If a person belives in the existence of universal human moral, or values, would not such values be the feeling that is not right and just to kill children, regardless if it is war or not? Similiar would be the case of women's rape, a mass-rape would be even worse. Didn't the god punish Achilles after the pillage of Apollon's temple and the rape of his priestesses. An act clearly marked as negative by the people of the past. If a woman who suffered a rape wants to express herself thorugh a medium, be it a blog, shouldn't it be normal for the general public to let her do so?
posted by Rand at 12:46 PM
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