Middle East

[smc]

Originally Posted by Buddy

Loosen that tie, SMC, millions of dying Africans is no joke, thinking this forum is going to change all that is a joke.

Originally Posted by ila

Regardless of whether this forum (or any other) may or may not change something has nothing to do with making insulting remarks about a country and its citizens.

ila is absolutely correct, and I would go further to state that discussions on this forum about serious issues actually may change things. If one person behaves differently in the world because she or he learns something new or adopts a more advanced way of thinking as a result of our discussions, the possibilities for what ramifications that might have are limitless. Note I used the word "possibilities." Consider the butterfly effect in chaos theory.

Your response to my post, Buddy, was not at all like ila's. You decided to compound your original insulting remark by misrepresenting my response to it and then characterizing my concern as a "joke."

Your insights, no matter how correct they may be, do not make it okay to be insulting.