• RaptorBenn@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Yeah it’s real typical for kidnappings to be publicly known, announced in advance and then the victim safetly returned promptly, entirely unharmed. Im sure you can fram it as a kidnapping with some backflips, but you just look like a whiny child. She was captured and held unlawfully sure, but if it was actually for humanitarian aid and not self publicity, i might have some sympathy.

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      4 days ago

      So if somali pirates would just take the ship and send the crew back home it would all be good?

      You’re having an interesting opinion here.

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      3 days ago

      Can’t really agree with you on this one. I would welcome and fight for more people doing the right thing for personal benefit. Seems a lot better than the current circumstances.

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        3 days ago

        Doing the right thing for the wrong reasons, in my experience, backfires more often than not. It’s a dangerous gamble.

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          3 days ago

          Yes. The only tatoo idea I have for myself involves dice, chains, and the words “Let’s tempt Fate.” While I would prefer an ideal situation, it’s taking too long. I will support any act that brings aid, supplies, or more notoriety to the plight of Gaza. Even Al-Capone had a soup kitchen for the hungry Chicagans of the Great Depression.

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            3 days ago

            If you want this conflict to end the last thing you want to give it is more noteriety. The only reason this is still happening is because of outside influences.

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              3 days ago

              Can you please elaborate on that connection from your perspective. I imagine there must be some context I am overlooking.

              Willful ignorance of atrocities does not have any chance of stopping or slowing them. Source: Russian Gulags, North Korea, US native women murders/trafficking, Auschwitz.

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                3 days ago

                All the shouting and “notoriety” just makes it worse. Turns it into a spectacle instead of actually fixing anything. Sometimes, less outside noise is exactly what’s needed for people to sort their own mess out. Wayne Dyer said, “Conflict cannot survive without your participation.”

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                  2 days ago

                  Ahh yes, because that solves the bystander effect which is why Kitty Genovese did not die from being stabbed in 1964. Also why the Uvalde police are heros for not participating in that school shooting. /s

                  You still haven’t explained any of your reasoning, so I will assume it is in bad faith.

                  Finally, your quote is about interpersonal conflict, not violence and murder. Mr. Dyer was a therapist.

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      3 days ago

      Israel does not feel a need to hide their crimes because they believe any action they take is righteous because they are doing it and any action their enemies take is evil because they are doing it