When War Is Justified

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Mozart Day
Thomas Crapper Day
Anniversary - Auschwitz Liberated
Day of Remembrance for Victims of Nazism (Germany)
Holocaust Memorial Day (UK)

 

Genocide is bad, kids. Remember that.

The fact that we have to have days to remind people of this says something rather sad about people, doesn't it?

Comments

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I would be careful of blaming one person for the actions of others. One of the impediments to peace is to hold grudges for things other people have done, especially if these other people did it in a long-past setting. There are cultural ideals and holdovers, but those are fading now, and you must always remember that each person within a culture has their own interpretation.

I've had weirder reasons for drifting away from people, though, so maybe it wasn't just that. You never know.

[principessar.livejournal.com]

Yeah ... I always feel guilty about my fears of other people ... but I guess in my defense if I ever try to ... become less biased someone I know will give me a lecture on how you can't trust x or you can't forget y. I think it happens though, slowly. I'm much more accepting than my grandparents, for instance... 0.0 They don't seem to like anyone who isn't Jewish!

Yeah ... I dunno. I just know that being scared of her -- which I guess i'd managed to suppress, suddenly rose up in my mind and was like, hey you can't be friends with her! 0.0