1) r humans generally good but have a dash of evil or evil with a dash of goodness?
2) What are the 2 main positive outcomes from the coalition troupes withdrawing from Iraq and what are the 2 main negative consequences of it?
Don’t mind if u post ur comments on the questions…
Good question. I suppose you’ve got to think of it like colour. A very small number of people are albino or black as the night. And I’m not making any inferences about which colour is good or bad. So most of us are coffee coloured – a reasonable mix of good and bad. Some people are so good that they pretty much just ooze goodness and the only evil is your own desire to smack them! Others are just really damn bad, and we’ve all read about them. But as every good movie will demonstrate, they usually have maybe one redeeming feature. So – no one is 100% either way in my opinion…
Comment by sonael — March 20, 2007 @ 10:07 am
I’m going for question 2. With this qualification – I don’t think that there are ever positive outcomes from a war, except peace, and since the war is what interrupted that in the first place then I don’t think that peace is really an outcome as such. Unfortunately I don’t think that peace is the state Iraq will revert back to when the troops get pulled out – not without some very clever and tricky negotiating. Given Bush and his cronies aren’t good at that kind of thing I think it will just descend into that nastiest form of war – a civil war. But…..
Positives…..
1) Less Allied soldiers getting killed…
2) Less profiteering off the war by Bush’s buddies….
3) Less antagonism being generated against the west by the continued presence of soldiers in Iraq…..
Negative….
1) Iraqi civil war gets worse…
2) Lots more innocents are injured and die in the civil war…
3) Bush might go looking for another fight to start to divert attention from the chaos he left in Iraq….
Pretty depressing stuff really. Only General’s or Presidents think you can win any war. The rest of us should know that it is always humankind that loses. Not sure what God’s role in any of it this is except perhaps that he is becoming the excuse….
Does anyone else have a different take on it?
Comment by Katrina — March 21, 2007 @ 5:24 pm
Some feedback for Q1 others…
The concept of good and evil is a religious concept which created lots of problems the last couple of centuries…
You don’t have to believe … you need to be united in spirit and not divided by religion.. J from Sydney/London
Comment by carmey2001 — March 24, 2007 @ 12:00 pm
It’s the only viable concept to think that humans are good with a dash of evil… El from Oxford
Comment by carmey2001 — March 24, 2007 @ 12:02 pm
People are neutral… to survive as a society you need to be good. It is easier to live with since society dictates peoples performance. Society only survives b/c people help each other and this helps the continuation of the human species… Fil from Oxford
Comment by carmey2001 — March 24, 2007 @ 12:06 pm
Since the war is illegal in the first place, by withdrawing the coalition troops will not draw insurgence and terrorist to attack the troops anymore… Fil from Oxford
It also depends how they do it.. if they apologies and admit they shouldn’ve been there and give them help…. it’s to do what they say about it… of course unlikely event. El from Oxford
Comment by carmey2001 — March 24, 2007 @ 12:12 pm
US might realise that just b/c they are powerful they can’t win wars and may less likely to invade another country… El from Oxford
Comment by carmey2001 — March 24, 2007 @ 12:13 pm
Troops widthraw will be an acknowledgement of the defit… Fil from Oxford
Comment by carmey2001 — March 24, 2007 @ 12:14 pm
The whole security will break down if the troops widthraw and to certain extend the troops are holding them together… Fil from Oxford
Comment by carmey2001 — March 24, 2007 @ 12:15 pm
US encouraged certain groups in the first IRAQ war to attack and then they abandoned them. The groups that are currently encouraged by the troops to attack will feel that they are abandoned… El from Oxford
Comment by carmey2001 — March 24, 2007 @ 12:17 pm
The withdrawal will show USA as a weaker and defeated in the Arab world… Fil from Oxford
Comment by carmey2001 — March 24, 2007 @ 12:19 pm
Good and evil, darkness and light, black and white, – This is an eternal question and battle, as expressed by humanity in many major literary works and films, and simple moral premises that shape who we are and guide society. There seems to be a constant flux of good and evil in every aspect of the lives of most people, and when either one dominates, the impact is felt. Whether it is recognised for what it is, is another matter. I think it’s a constant struggle to maintain the dominating force of goodness, but as Fil from Oxford mentioned before, this is the one that usually prevails, judging by the survival of our civilisation and the creativity required to maintain it, but any in depth enquiry into the state of our current world, begs the question – Are we gradually losing the battle?
Comment by Carla — March 25, 2007 @ 9:59 am
I’ll answer question 1.
All humans are born good….Holy infact….It is our world that they grow up in that instills the evil in them.
So hence I believe I am good with a dash of evil…….how about you?
Jake
Comment by Jake — March 28, 2007 @ 6:47 am
People are born nutral only through the way they are raised and their circumstances determine the degree of goodness and evilness in them… Zareh from Allepo
Comment by carmey2001 — April 2, 2007 @ 6:58 pm
One cannot exist without the other. You can’t have a one sided magnet. No matter how thin you slice it, you will always have a positive and negative charge. So too in life and also within each of us. They are there to balance us to equilibrium (love). The trouble comes when you have been too good for too long, the universe always has it that you then end up doing something bad / evil to balance it out, hopefully to learn a lesson, see the good and the bad and be grateful (which brings us back to love) – wisdom from Dr John Demartini. I’m just swinging on the pendulum of good / bad /balance and from experience you don’t want to go too far either way…it takes longer to get back to balance and you can be left feeling a little manic depressive:-)
Comment by Rebecca — May 3, 2007 @ 1:56 am