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Je suis Charlie from Spain!

France stay strong!

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Je suis Charlie!

L'amour plus fort que la haine. Nous sommes Charlie.

Northern greece or Aegean Macedonia...There are people who are still oppressed by the greek government, they cannot speak their mother tongue, they cannot practice their folklore they cannot say that they are Macedonians, Their Right for SELF DECLARATION IS FORBIDDEN BY LAW! Yet, they live in European Union...Sorry for the trolls who trolled Islam...BUT EU STOP BEING HYPOCRITE IN 21st CENTURY !

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There was no sympathy for e.g. Daliwar, was there, so why care about other victims of the War on Terror with and against AQ?

People do not attain perfect information. If we insist that compassion is all or nothing, that we either /must/ care about everything or else we are hypocritical, then it is just an excuse for apathy. I'm sure very few people outside of America know that an NAACP building in Colorado was firebombed, but I do not hold it against them. Compassion is for us to give where we can, imperfect as we are.

I didn't say in that comment that compassion is either all or nothing. But in a "war" which has been going on for more than 10 years now and in which "soldiers" get merely fired and fined 1000 U.S. dollars for torturing a civilian to death, all while if someone else does it to an European it would apparently be at least several decades in prison for it, I would think that common standarts would be appropriate especially since many Europeans experienced firsthand the Herrenrasse-standarts of Nazi-Germany.

Similar opinion I hold in regard to them drone attacks, particularly in regard to who is made how a target, as it appears to me that even merely very out-spoken persons (which are not involved in any militant activity or preparation thereof) are targeted, which could be translated to "persecution of political opposition", especially since since day 1 of that War on Terror it wasn't really clear whether it really qualifies for all-out military action instead of proper international police-work (in regard to the criminals of the world elite which can afford and have the rights to travel from continent to continent), which they then propped up with ridiculous claims.

In other words, I didn't agree with G.Bush when he basically said that if I don't lick his balls I will be considered world enemy, and I still do not.

So or so, if you do not care e.g. about soldiers, officially representing you and your right to safety, doing seriously ef'ed up stuff, perhaps do not send them in the first place in whichever form then, huh?

That said, not that I think that the murders had any right to do what they did. After all, a magazine employing same "freedom" would probably have sold way more easily in France than that other magazine. And it could have made a clear case of the issue which requires legislative attention, that is if French were seriously insulted if Hollande was depicted as mass murderer of children apparently supporting abortion and similarly.

Besides all that, year 2014, ten-thousands killed in traffic accidents, similar numbers in regard to non-(gang-)war violent deaths. Where is the collective remembrance for them? Anywhere? How about the victims who were not killed but suffered often serious injury? Does your country help with settling formalities or does a victim have to go through a marathon of bureaucratic instances to get at least some financial recognition at least for disability? And/or does car insurance cover at least some of the expenses and costs?

Look, I have no experience for what sort of bureaucracy there is for applying for disability in my country. I don't necessarily like the wars America got themselves into. But you asked why we should care about what happened in France, and I'm saying the fact that it is harder to collectively care about every atrocity is not a reason to have apathy over the people in France, which seems to be your grievance.

There's a lot of local stuff in Chicago where I am that happens that sucks. Gang violence is pretty bad, yeah. Not a lot of people outside of Chicago in America pay attention to that sort of stuff unless it's really bad. But people caring about a statistic of deaths is not a prerequisite for caring about what happened elsewhere.

Anyway uhh your wall of text tells me that this is probably less about the issue of compassion and more about being a bit angry the war on terror is a bit contrived and hard to actually fight. America didn't have a lot of experience with non-standard wars, yeah, so our country made mistakes, some of them really bad. I don't know a lot about who drones attack, but I don't think the targets are meant to politically oppress free speech. I don't think G. Bush's foreign policy is exactly the way you paint it. I don't know a lot on the issue.

But don't let some of the absurdity of American policy make you too cynical over standing with others against what is very clearly wrong. The fact that I'm not sure about what happens in the military maybe goes to show you that it's harder to be angry over those issues.

My question was basically: "Why start caring now about some more individuals being victims among them many innocent victims if there was no caring about it before?".

Certainly true that I am not familiar with Chicago. Tho from what I did read in the past about it, the whole issue of that there are apparently 5 different officer schools in Chicago seems to have something to do with it, at least in the past where it may have been some sort of rivalvery going on.

And true that I am not really offering in my hand any specific solution, not even if I made myself head of AQ since many of the issues are more general. So or so, that a big army is being fought on their field guerilla style, that is not really anything that new. Not meaning only WWII, but it reaching way further back that the 20th century. And in an overall view, an argument of: "they are more evil for killing civilians than we or ours are for killing civilians" seems overally rather ridiculous.

I am so shocked by the events that take place in Paris at the moment, that I do not know what to answer you.
Why these attacks make us so emotional? Perhaps because they are held against our values against our Republic and our democracy.
And whatever some may think, yes it is true that many other victims fall through the world every day, but those killed in France, are guilty of one thing: to have wanted to make others laugh, having the audacity to be and to live freely. That, and nothing else !
Right now, there is a new attack in Paris, and several hostages as well as bomb threats.
The country is sinking in an atmosphere of war, of paranoia. Our only solution, our only answer is our union, a union that would not make any amalgames.
So yes, there is such horrors taking place around the world, too often, but excuses me DaLe to feel particularly concerned as a European citizen, and French.

Swap "Paris" for "Iraq" etc. and you sound as I would imagine an AQ agitator sounds like.

Not sure if your are implying every other victim of NATO rampage and others' rampage deserved to die...

Anyhow, as said, people being killed in war doesn't sound as news. And arguably, if that Republic and democracy were top-notch, then war would contradict the whole thing, meaning that there at least theoretically wouldn't be any reasonable conflict which would result to violence since of law system, individual rights, and being able to sit at one table and reasonably talk. But since we are not there (yet), I certainly refuse any being put into "you are defending good and you are fighting evil (and my name is Hitler and their name is Churchill).
Of course, I am well aware that I am exposing myself to be labelled as anarchist, but I find the whole issue to be in the first place often one of 'various justifications of violence and sportsfan approach'.