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Originally Posted by hawkins1588
In the Islamic world, in China, Russia and other regions of the earth we are seen as weak and effeminate; a decadent, hedonistic civilization in decline. If we are to survive as a civilization, we must find a balance between compassion and tolerence, and the kind of realistic thinking and physical toughness necessary to prevail in a dangerous and violent world.
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Why is it that a civilization that prides itself on caring for its weakest citizens, is regarded as weak. It takes a strong person to show compassion, tolerance and self-sacrifice in the face of cruelty, unkindness and intolerance.
It takes a really strong man to show his emotion when having to deal with the blows that life deals.
It is easy to give in to our basest instincts, to destroy an enemy, to hit out at a recalcitrant child, to use physical power to control your personal cosmos.
It is a much harder thing be kind, caring and compassionate, and to take the chance of appearing weak to the unfeeling, less civilized world.
You only have to go into a children's playground to watch a bully pick on the perceived weaker members of the group, to realize that the true weakness is in the bully, not his target.
No, I disagree with you. It is up to the liberal west to take on the 'bullies' of the warmongering, merciless perpetrators of harm to the weakest members of those societies.