Sawell said:
The day humanity lives in harmony is the day that people stop segregating themselves into sub-societies and blindly following those societies like they are ingrained in their DNA.
Segregation certainly isn't built into people's DNA, but fear of things that are different and sticking with your own kind are both strong evolutionary traits.
Sawell said:
You're not English, you're human.
I am both, you're wrong.
Sawell said:
Sure, you were born geographically on a lump of land which belongs to a government and as such you were processed by that government as a member of their society. It's nice, it feels friendly, it doesn't feel like you're just another headcount towards the mechanics of mass organisation, granted. But you are. Your social liberties, your leaps and bounds that you have over other countries are not because you're a great member of that society, it's just so that you can pay your way out of the debt that you owe that society through work, taxes, retail purchases, tourism and input. You're just a packaged investment like the others born every minute in the UK.
I don't see what value this statement has, isn't this just defining what the average citizen's role is?
Sawell said:
You're lucky. You're probably a white male with good British heritage. You're a tiny proportion of a global population, and you have lucked out. You started with no handicap in life, no back footing. You were born at the front of the queue, pretty much as close to the front as you can get, relatively speaking.
Yep. It's good to be the king.
Sawell said:
And so what now, you think that your social liberty (via luck no less)
Wrong. I would not be here if not for my circumstances. If I were born elsewhere and had different experiences, I would not be me. Would I?
Sawell said:
entitles you to some kind of casual bigotry over people in this world who are trying to share a slice of what you take for granted?
Firstly, I do not take it for granted. I appreciate how valuable it is. I take advantage of every opportunity given and in return do my part. I will also stand up for it's defence against those who would undermine my liberties with their own misguided understanding of them. Letting people do what the hell they want is not part of the British social contract.
Sawell said:
Because these freedoms come too easily to you, others should take a back seat and accept a lesser or different way of living?
Nonsense. They don't come easily, hence their rarity. There is a price on it's rarity, and as such you have to integrate and contribute.
Others are completely free to pass the requisite levels necessary to become part of Britain, as my father was, and no doubt many others were.
Sawell said:
After all, it's not like the massive narrow-minded nature of blind following is the fuel for most conflict in this world.
Actually it's "I want what you have, give me it". Generally.
Sawell said:
Imagine if we lived in a world where you didn't judge someone for being on a different street to you
I don't. I'm not that shallow.
Sawell said:
Or a football team for being different to yours
If I could speak to animals I'd become a vet!
Sawell said:
Or a southerner for not being from the north
I would say those that are genuinely aggreived by this have other problems. Serious mental problems, specfically.
Sawell said:
or a country for not speaking or acting as yours does.
Isn't that the role of diplomacy? If only for the sake of not getting crossed wires.
Sawell said:
Will it take a band of aliens destroying the world to finally realise that our stupid little societies are different versions of the same thing, all living for the same reason
Nice assumption there. Some people are greedy and misanthropic. Some are sharing and kind hearted. Infact, we're all different!
Sawell said:
Enjoying the same life that they try to extract as much happiness as possible from?
Some might enjoy socialising, others not. It's an extremely vague statement.
. Bit touchy, aren't we? Put your handbag away love.
