Reply #60: You're a little off on that definition of "oppressed." [View All]

[library_max]

It doesn't mean "poor" and it doesn't mean "facing difficulties." The American Heritage Dictionary defines "Oppress" as follows: "To keep down by severe and unjust use of force or authority: a people who were oppressed by tyranny." Or like, I don't know, conquering a people, herding them into refugee camps, bulldozing their homes, taking their land, denying them the vote while calling your society a democracy, and killing them indiscriminately to put down the resistance of some of them.

So, all that stuff has happened to you and those you love, has it? That's the kind of situation in which you "look for survival by using my skills, not by annihilating others," is it? Not hypothetically, someone has actually bulldozed your house, taken away your ancestral land, herded you into a refugee camp, etc. etc. Really. Because otherwise, all the moral posturing is just plain cheap.