Humans, eh?

I got into a political argument today. If there's one thing I avoid, it's talking politics. Or religion. Or arguing with a bigot.

Okay, they're all the same thing really. What I mean is, I avoid getting into an argument with one of those blinkered, I-am-the-follower-of-the-one-true-way (religious, political, fanatical way of seeing the world, eg all whites are God's creation and morally physically intellectually superior -- never mind that people who think like that are usually not superior to anyone ... sorry, was I ranting?)

Anyway, I guess I didn't want to back down in front of Leanne, because the guy was really determined to have it out, and, as I say, usually I'd gracefully weasel out of it and disappear, but this time ...

You know that feeling you have when you're beating your head against a brick wall? It was like that. I'd give a reasoned, rational argument; he'd tell me it was war. I mean that was his answer to everything. Everything's justified because it's war. Granted war's hell, yet I seem to recall some people deciding that war doesn't justify doing some things. I thought that was what the Geneva Convention was about (although part of me says that's just turning war into a game, with rules, and maybe if we didn't pretend it was a game, people would see how horrible it was and wouldn't do it anymore. Of course the problem with that argument is that most people don't want war; it's not going to stop until we get leaders who don't want war. Leaders who actually empathize with the "little people" - ie anyone outside the magic circle. And of course, we need that to happen on both sides).

Sorry. I am ranting. I guess I'm still worked up from this afternoon. It was really frustrating, y'know? Oh why can't people be rational? (and kind and generous and never hurt anyone ... Hah!).

I love the human race.