panzade wrote:McGentrix wrote:
When they act like people, I will think of them as such.
I guess this is what got my dander up...this dehumanizing of the Iraquis...but i guess i was a little over the top.
Given the enormous range of brutal and terrible behaviour, amply and frequently demonstrated by people everywhere, over the millenia, it always sadly amuses me to see these attempts to deny some of them their humanity.
Of course, we tend to reserve our most enthusiastic attempts to deny the reality of humanity to those whose awful acts happen to be committed by those we have determined to be on "the other side".