Originally posted by AKIron
Someone was commenting about the recent mocking and sacrilege at a Catholic church in San Francisco and they noted that if these gay militants had committed the same act against muslims they wouldn't be simply chastised, they'd be dead. Islam won't be dissauded from world domination with mere words.
I find such ignorance saddening. On thier part, that is. Not even giving a person with a different point of view a chance is just wrong to me. I was taught to listen to people, even if you think thier dumb as a brick, listen to them. They might suprise you. (And so far, I think they have in this case, I did not realize that Islam was this badly off to my way of thinking, I thought it would be something I wouldn't have to think about. It would seem that I am wrong. Which is fine, I am rarely correct to start with. Ironic, to me atleast.)
Mere words may not stop wrong doings, but it's better than jumping the gun and making all your friends angry to the point of hatred. Going back to another topic, I suppose I might be able to make it into a more AH related scenerio. As I am tired, and probably going to bed after this. (Good nig- okay, the sun is up. I'll just see y'all later.
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(Again, bear with me, I've been up far too long, and this is kinda sketchy, I do not mean to anger, and if I do so, I am sorry.)
I see it like this, say you got... 4 P-51s. Model don't matter, they're all the same. Flying in formation, and generally being, well, good pals. Wingmen, friends. Suddenly, out of nowhere this Me-109 screechs out of the sun and stabs in thin air, barely missing one of them. And diving down and away from them. One of the P-51s break, and go after him. When all the others are yelling to hold formation, let him walk away, he didn't cause no harm.
Little does the P-51 that broke realize, he's dragging him down, and below the P-51s, under some clouds are a pair of 109s, waiting. Waiting for one of the Mustangs to break, and go down.
Two things can happen at this point, his wingman goes and backs him up incase he gets in trouble, which I see as the most likely. Or they can let him go alone. The least likely.
Either way, the end outcome does not matter. The proper move (to me) would have been good teamwork, and better training. The P-51 that originally broke formation would not have done so. And thusly they would have all kept going as a group, taking care of each other, and themselves.
Instead of one guy trying to be a glory hog, and put himself, and possibly others in danger. This is, to me, the difference between talking it out with your friends and just leaping to action like a Hero in a bad movie.
(I'm gonna note at this point that I do not have any little underlying tones here, If you find anything politcal in that little scenario beyond the teamwork I'm trying to point out, I did not mean it.)
