Comments on: Brian Ray

By: Graham Young

Graham Young — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 17:33:01 +0000

Benno, say a prayer and have a good lie down!

By: Sapien

Sapien — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 11:59:55 +0000

Here go the silly doorsteppers like Mary. As it happens, we identify more with people who are like us. We empathise with people like us: we can imagine us being them. It’s harder for us to liken ourselves to others who live in poor societies and practice rituals strange to us. These are the Pakistani train-travellers.
It’s not, silly Mary, that we disrespect people of other cultures. We have the technology that publicises these from far greater distances than many of the world imagine exist. We have a broader view because of our circumstances. We are made aware of many things and we can spend only so much time expressing regret for all these others. How much time, Mary, did you spend for each of the 36 people killed on our roads this week?

By: Mary Walsh

Mary Walsh — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:37:38 +0000

But, of course, we’ve always known that one Westerner’s life is worth than a hundred “other” lives (?). It is unfortunate that our Governments do not reflect “the man in the street’s” version of the value of one human life. Because there is anger at the assumption of our superiority, “Terriosts” will continue to target the soft belly of the community to ensure that eventually we’ll learn to count properly.

By: benno

benno — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 14:34:48 +0000

spam sincerity tags:
somehow the word association of ‘Graham Young’ and ‘Jesus’ keeps popping into my head.