Reply #68: loss of humanity [View All]

[ulTRAX]

ulysses wrote: "about that "loss of humanity" thing. Do tell. Does expressing indifference to the deaths of mercenaries who are in a war zone *by choice* equal a loss of humanity?

My point is that there's a continuum... better still, a slippery slope from "I knew Bush was wrong invading Iraq" to "this disaster serves Bush right"... or further... "man, I hope today's news is bad". That's what I meant by a loss of humanity.

What greases this slide is extreme partisanship which begins to divide up the world into "what helps the cause" and "what hurts the cause". I believe by the time one reaches that last state they have crossed a line. But it can progress further. In it's MOST extreme we have the Hitlers and Stalins to whom the cause, whatever they have deluded themselves to believe it is, is more important than a few tens of millions lives. In those extremes, I see this creeping irrationality indistinguishable from psychosis. And no, I don't see the Left from being immune to such degeneration.