Comments on: Well? http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/snarl/2007/06/26/well/ Snarl\'s Humble Webpage Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:27:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Lise http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/snarl/2007/06/26/well/comment-page-1/#comment-13187 Lise Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:58:28 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/snarl/2007/06/26/well/#comment-13187 Well, Karl, you are a known child-hater so.... seriously, I think what people mean is this - (first there is the feeling of lost innocence, that children are innocent, but I think that is too simplistic a thought and frankly off the point) that because they are so young there is a greater sense of lost potential. Which is a little different than "they had their whole lives ahead of them". And that they didn't even get the chance to see what they could do/acommplish/create/affect. Also, not so much loving the new look. I like the last two (the most recent & the one you'd had for awhile). And Im not sure I need a picture that close up of your nose! Not that it's not an attractive nose, but still, it's a nose! ;) Well, Karl, you are a known child-hater so…. seriously, I think what people mean is this – (first there is the feeling of lost innocence, that children are innocent, but I think that is too simplistic a thought and frankly off the point) that because they are so young there is a greater sense of lost potential. Which is a little different than “they had their whole lives ahead of them”. And that they didn’t even get the chance to see what they could do/acommplish/create/affect. Also, not so much loving the new look. I like the last two (the most recent & the one you’d had for awhile). And Im not sure I need a picture that close up of your nose! Not that it’s not an attractive nose, but still, it’s a nose! ;)

]]> By: J.P. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/snarl/2007/06/26/well/comment-page-1/#comment-13186 J.P. Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:16:58 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/snarl/2007/06/26/well/#comment-13186 I agree with you completely on this, as I also agree with the previous commenter. It's trés chic in some circles these days to scream "what about the children" at everything, and while it is quite tragic that this child died, what about all the others that were murdered this year? I agree with you completely on this, as I also agree with the previous commenter. It’s trés chic in some circles these days to scream “what about the children” at everything, and while it is quite tragic that this child died, what about all the others that were murdered this year?

]]> By: Will http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/snarl/2007/06/26/well/comment-page-1/#comment-13185 Will Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:34:08 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/snarl/2007/06/26/well/#comment-13185 Karl, I agree completely but I would extend your concern to other areas. Maybe it's just because I'm gay, but I've always wondered why women have always been protected in emergency situations but it's just fine for men to be slaughtered ("Women and Children First" and other vestiges of the old "Chivalric Code"). When the feminist movement started, I thought that if there is to be real equality, then women should have to go to war, be drafted and serve in combat. Some of that has actually happened. But i do keep hearing test balloons put out by the military about a draft--if women aren't drafted, then we do not have true equality. Whenever a child is killed we always hear "(s)he had his/her whole life ahead of him/her." This is nonsense--whenever ANYBODY is killed, they have their whole lives ahead of them. When I was growing up, it was in a post WWII culture that still harbored sever prejudices against Germans and japanese. I heard in school, at home, and throughout society that "Orientals" have no respect for human life because there are so many of them. The reasoning was that if they lost a million or so, so what, there were millions left. This was bullshit--Asian societies have immense respect for human life and the way they care for and respect elders in their various cultures is wholly admirable and the exact opposite of what goes on in western cultures, particularly in the U.S. where there is contempt for the old and and the focus is entirely on youth. it is we who are cruel and lacking in respect for human life. We have now killed more Afghan civilians than the Taliban. Bush shakes the bible over stem cell research to defeat measures that could lead to the cure of millions but has no hesitation to send our people to their deaths and no care for the thousands and thousands of Iraqi civilians who are slaughtered every month. He probably thinks they're some kind of "gooks" and don't matter. Sorry for the rant, but you opened the floodgates with your sentiment that I support fully. Karl, I agree completely but I would extend your concern to other areas. Maybe it’s just because I’m gay, but I’ve always wondered why women have always been protected in emergency situations but it’s just fine for men to be slaughtered (”Women and Children First” and other vestiges of the old “Chivalric Code”).

When the feminist movement started, I thought that if there is to be real equality, then women should have to go to war, be drafted and serve in combat. Some of that has actually happened. But i do keep hearing test balloons put out by the military about a draft–if women aren’t drafted, then we do not have true equality.

Whenever a child is killed we always hear “(s)he had his/her whole life ahead of him/her.” This is nonsense–whenever ANYBODY is killed, they have their whole lives ahead of them.

When I was growing up, it was in a post WWII culture that still harbored sever prejudices against Germans and japanese. I heard in school, at home, and throughout society that “Orientals” have no respect for human life because there are so many of them. The reasoning was that if they lost a million or so, so what, there were millions left. This was bullshit–Asian societies have immense respect for human life and the way they care for and respect elders in their various cultures is wholly admirable and the exact opposite of what goes on in western cultures, particularly in the U.S. where there is contempt for the old and and the focus is entirely on youth. it is we who are cruel and lacking in respect for human life.

We have now killed more Afghan civilians than the Taliban. Bush shakes the bible over stem cell research to defeat measures that could lead to the cure of millions but has no hesitation to send our people to their deaths and no care for the thousands and thousands of Iraqi civilians who are slaughtered every month. He probably thinks they’re some kind of “gooks” and don’t matter.

Sorry for the rant, but you opened the floodgates with your sentiment that I support fully.

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