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[Makbeth]

God dammit why does everyone hate so.

Because our biology and therefore basic psychology doesn't change as quickly as our technology.  We can communicate with nearly everyone in the world now, but we still treat those different from us as other tribes, and therefore don't grant them the protection of our own tribe's morals.  This is why the First Commandment is, in practice, "Thou shalt not kill unless thou art killing cultural or geographical foreigners".  Same reason why we have weapons now that can destroy us at the same time it destroys the people we're using them against, but we still pretty much treat them as really big sticks.

One good way to counteract this is to put as many different "tribes" together as possible so they begin to see themselves as one.  Or you can give them a common enemy.  Historically this has usually been other tribes, but I'm hoping that eventually more realize that the universe is a much more worthwhile enemy.  The universe is incredibly hostile to life, and even on the tiny, insignificantly rare planets that support it, no living thing is ever not at risk of dying in the next few minutes.  Ever.  That's what we should be struggling against.

[Jackrabbit]

edit: Also, great thread title. No way people aren't reading THIS thread. Ever considered a career in advertising, or news, for that matter?

Yes, actually.

[Dasleah]

Welp, the story has hit a few of the national news outlets (at least the Morning Show, which has been plugging the story on Sunrise all morning, looks like it's one of their 'big' pieces of the morning). Today'll be interesting.

[Earthquake Damage]

Welp, the story has hit a few of the national news outlets (at least the Morning Show, which has been plugging the story on Sunrise all morning, looks like it's one of their 'big' pieces of the morning). Today'll be interesting.

One of the best things that could happen:  Bad publicity and lots of it.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Okay, everyone has the right to be whatever their sex or sexual orientation or religion or other personal ideal in public, so long as it breaks no law and infringes nobody else's rights.

Arent there still countries in which it is "illegal" to be homosexual? At least there are countries in which these laws have been changed only recently.

It's about half of countries with laws on it, actually. Scroll down for a key.

Most death-penalty-for-homosexuality having countries have "downgraded" from draging you out into a public square and beating you untill you die to letting you rot in a prison full of psychopaths untill you die of somthing else, but that isn't exactly the best step.

And then there's Uganda. Oh dear lord, Uganda. There was a bill to move homosexuality into the death penalty a year ago, but it failed. However, it failed just barely, and now stuff like this happens.

I know who I blame for the sickining attitude towards homosexuality in most of Africa, but I don't want to start a flame war, so I'll keep that opinion to myself.

[Realmfighter]

After spending most of today in a introspective, nihilistic coma (Thank you So Much for telling me to read books about Black/White relations in the sixties Mr English Teacher) i have come to the conclusion that people hate because they are people.

Well, off to the optimistic Sci Fi to make the stupid go awa-

8Teacher hands me Malcolm X's auto biography*

Son Of a Bitch

[Criptfeind]

God dammit why does everyone hate so.

This is why the First Commandment is, in practice, "Thou shalt not kill unless thou art killing cultural or geographical foreigners".

I had no idea you can turn "I am your god" into "Do not kill."

[sonerohi]

Jack, do not lose hope for the world. I go to a Catholic private school. We had 17 homosexual couples show up and be admitted and all was chill. Hell, I'm an atheist and my friend is Jewish, and the Korean exchange students are a mixture of Buddhist and another religion (that I frankly cannot pronounce and did not learn how to spell) and yet the school does not burn us for witchery.

[Heliman]

Okay, everyone has the right to be whatever their sex or sexual orientation or religion or other personal ideal in public, so long as it breaks no law and infringes nobody else's rights.

Arent there still countries in which it is "illegal" to be homosexual? At least there are countries in which these laws have been changed only recently.

[Bauglir]

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[sonerohi]

Nah, even a person can suck pretty hard. Everyone wants to be taught and told, few wish to learn and analyze. 

[Bauglir]

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[Cthulhu]

God dammit why does everyone hate so.

This is why the First Commandment is, in practice, "Thou shalt not kill unless thou art killing cultural or geographical foreigners".

I had no idea you can turn "I am your god" into "Do not kill."

Well... Let's see.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I am your God = Do not kill

I am = God [see Exodus I think, but whatever]

Your God^2 = Do Not Kill

Your God = Do Not Kill/God

Kill/God = Crusade  [killing over god]

Your God = Do Not Crusade

Divide by negative 1

Others' God = Do Crusade

So it's clearly self-defense.

In seriousness, people suck. A person can be pretty awesome.

I believe he was meaning that the 1st commandment is not "Do not kill."  That's the sixth commandment.

Spoiler: Researching what you discuss before discussing, it's pretty cool (click to show/hide)

ONE: 'You shall have no other gods before Me.'

TWO: 'You shall not make for yourself a carved image--any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.'

THREE: 'You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.'

FOUR: 'Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.'

FIVE: 'Honor your father and your mother.'

SIX: 'You shall not murder.'

SEVEN: 'You shall not commit adultery.'

EIGHT: 'You shall not steal.'

NINE: 'You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.'

TEN: 'You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.'

[Bauglir]

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[Criptfeind]

It is funny how one can tell what sect you are from the way you layed thoughs out. Or at least what Sect it is you got them from.

I give fair odds 'thul is Orthodox from that.

Also that proves nothing because it has no proof that I am your God = Do not kill.