Let's talk Gaians

[bluntpencil2001]

And that is a fairly closed minded attitude. I try to live by the belief that I cannot judge the rationality or irrationality without walking a mile in their shoes so to speak. I do not know what my life would be like if I were born to some poor Palestinian family in the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza. My family not having enough to eat, not being allowed to get enough to eat because of a dispute between powerful people that has nothing to do with me or my family. Without the mean or power to change my lot in life. I can only imagine the amount of rage that I would feel, and without an outlet with which to positively channel the rage I feel, I would be easy prey to those who would use my situation to their own ends. Is it so irrational that I would end up striking out, at the direction of another at what I see as responsible? At their people and their symbols? I dont think so. Just saying something is irrational, is allowing us to not see those we vilify are created, or how they think.

Being in a terrible position like that and striking out would be rational. If, however, they were, for instance non-Muslim Germans from Berlin, living reasonably comfortably, who decided to go and join a Palestinian terrorist group...

That's how I see Gaians.

They aren't from Leeds, where pollution is a problem. They originated from Cambridge, where there was no, and is no, BMM presence. Planetforming will never have an effect, positive or negative, upon them in their lifetimes. The presence of life on a barren rock will never negatively affect their descendants.

There's little or no rationality here, just as there is little or no rationality in terrorists who use suicidal methods.

Irrational terrorist factions make sense to me.

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