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Originally posted by Warren Dew:
So, John, are you drawing a parallel between the three cases? Are you saying that saving enough food to survive the winter is morally equivalent to arson and terrorism?
While the Bolsheviks in your story seemed to think so, I can't say that I agree.
Some of his family memories are warm. He remembers his father happily cooking rice and dolma, grape leaves stuffed with mutton, tomatoes, peas and spices. But he also recalls the time his father brought home photos that pictured him beating a bound man with inch-thick cables. He thinks his father was trying to impress his mother with a show of force.
His father appeared to snap, the teen says, after Mr. Hussein's regime fell in April 2003. He says his father spent time and money to build a network of insurgents to fight the Americans, and succumbed to frequent rages, beating his children more severely than ever before. Once, he says, his father tied his left hand to his left foot, and right hand to his right foot, and beat him "with anything that came into his hands."
His body bears witness to the violence around him. His scalp is a roadmap of scars from beatings and an accident. The skin on the back of his left hand is disfigured from the time he says his father accused him of stealing money and used a red-hot spoon to punish him. The teen recalls crying for days, in part because his mother didn't come to his rescue.
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"God who creates and is nature is very difficult to understand, but he is not arbitrary or malicious." OR "God does not play dice." - Einstein
Originally posted by John Smith:
There was a farmer who hid his food supply so that his family would survive the winter. And there was a little boy named Pavlic Morozov, his son, who would go to authorities and turn his father in. The bolsheviks arrested and eventually shot the father, his family starved to death, and Pavlic became a communist icon, a national hero.
Uncontrolled vocabularies
"I try my best to make *all* my posts nice, even when I feel upset" -- Philippe Maquet
Originally posted by John Smith:
Warren: So, John, are you drawing a parallel between the three cases? Are you saying that saving enough food to survive the winter is morally equivalent to arson and terrorism?
Nope. What I am saying is that the state that encourages the children to betray their parents and makes them into heros is the rotten state, and rotten become the children.
Originally posted by Frank Silbermann:
All states encourage people to betray criminal faimly members. What makes a state rotten is when its totalitarian impulse criminalizes so many behaviors that it becomes difficult to avoid becoming a criminal.