NY Post Knife Attack article

[Gus Kalanzis]

This is almost as bad as a spillover from W&C.

Gentlefolk - please take it to the poliltical forum and lets try to stick to knives in here.

 

[Johnny_Z]

Just because this one person used a particular knife during that one crime does not mean it is typical. Typicaly they use what they can find, this one might have found a nice knife to use.

 

[futant]

Us and them is what makes for football games, horse races and the success of more than one knifemaker at a time.

hooray for the difference

It's not always a negative, it can make for a good time and healthy competition...
but at the extreme, when it turns a WAR into a "football game", is where I have a problem with the mentality.

 

[A. G. Russell]

It's not always a negative, it can make for a good time and healthy competition...
but at the extreme, when it turns a WAR into a "football game", is where I have a problem with the mentality.

Sorry, you lost me. What does that mean? A. G.

 

[futant]

My apologies, I lose myself sometimes...
What I mean is that I feel that the extreme example of the "us vs. them" mentality is detrimental to coexistence. To agree with you, I appreciate the differences between people/cultures/opinions, etc.
But when this "us" becomes unconditionally correct in its actions, when so many of this country's citizens accept and back its government's actions because of a blindly nationalistic mindset, something's wrong.
I'm not saying that it's new or limited to this country, it's most countries of course, but that's what I mean when I talk of turning a war into a football game. It ends up about rooting for your country, your team, merely because it's involved in a conflict with "them". The objectivity disappears.