PROMETHEAN ANTAGONIST

I heard it again.

I get sick every time I hear it, "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter."

This and other bogus philosophical escapes into relativism are the types of meaningless chatter one expects to hear over a coffee or beer. 'Kind of on par with, "do we really exist or is this all just a dream..."

Contrast these pathetic musings with the reality of random lives deliberately targeted in the U.S., Spain, Bali, England, the Philippines, Thailand, and everywhere else the fascist Caliphate seeks to reestablish itself (and has attempted to do so in decades past).

On one side we have public school educated (indoctrinated) armchair philosophers and on the psuedo-"side" they ultimately defend; wanton destruction and death, all for the goal of establishing a fascist theocratic police state. The fools argument typically assumes they are merely "understanding" the "other" view, they "don't necessarily support it [why does "necessarily" always have to be included in such statements?]"

"Freedom fighters," my ass. No Islamic terrorist group today even claims to be fighting for freedom. The only people who believe such nonsense are the same people that thought Joseph Stalin was creating a paradise by enslaving and executing Russians.

I'm so glad that when Hitler was on the rampage it wasn't popular in many circles to say stupid things like, "One man's NAZI is another man's freedom fighter."

There's "sophisticated" and there's stupid and the difference should be obvious. Relativism in a time of confrontation with autocratic thugs is stupid.

The next time random citizens are deliberately slaughtered to promote the Islamic Jihad (this is now almost everyday somewhere in the world), remind someone who said "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" that they actually said such a stupid thing, just so they know that some of the blood on their hands is due in part to their own misplaced sympathies.

# posted by Promethean Antagonist @ 12:33 PM