Tonight I had another deep conversation with Misha ranging from our respective current crush drama, to why I don’t like swearing, to if terrorists should be viewed as humans, to being deployed and worst case scenarios. It’s nice to have a friend like him who I feel free to engage in conversation with while doing deep thinking, instead of being told that I’m thinking too much again. Plus, he’s the one who usually starts the topic of conversation. We often start off with opposing views, but by the end of the conversation we have more of an understanding of the other’s viewpoint, as well as more of an understanding of our own point of view. That is, except when it comes to relationship issues because we are both clueless in that area but do the best to give each other advice.
P.S. I was arguing that terrorists should still be viewed as humans.
Good, because they are! (Terrorists are humans, I mean.) I think a version of the golden rule still applies even in awful situations--you don't treat them they way you'd most like to be treated (give them a nice hotel room & a credit card), but you treat them the same ways you'd have no objection to them treating your own countrymen--in other words, you treat them as human beings. Otherwise, among other more fundamental things, when they turn around and torture Americans, we haven't much true ground to stand on to object. (International conventions only work when they're founded on something deeper. We can't throw out the deeper thing and expect the convention to stay in place.) Ahem. Leaving soapbox; choir sufficiently preached too...
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