Reply #38: I tend to have sympathy with Ashuandé who has never killed anyone. [View All]

[Democracyinkind]

At least in the nineties, when they all could live off of the yachts of the rich europeans and saudis, one could discuss these things with people who actually know something about the causes.

The Pittsburgh cop killer is a murderer just like Kacynski was. Both should be punished, but if a have reasonable grounds to explain the crime in a way that I can relate to I tend to have sympathy. But I agree, it's hard to live on this side and hold up this view. I don't know how living abroad worked for you, but it doesn't seem to have brought you to live and get to know the Somalian fishermen. Their story is not that of professional hustlers gunning down sailors.

I just don't see how our dumping our nuclear waste and destroying their means of living is not important in this discussion.
Maybe all you wanna do is discuss the Somalian warlords, the professional pirates, who haven't been all that active lately - but then I got the thread all wrong.