Re: Believers on Believers
Ravi, read the quotes in the very first post and then tell me if they reflect
"it is human nature to feel one's own tragedy strongly compared to others"
or do they reflect the feeling
"that their lives have less value"
or both?
Do you think one feeling stems the other?
If we speak of value, and if value is the extent to which I care for someone's life and feel their loss, then we all attribute different value to the lives of different people depending on how close we are to them/their ethnicity/their city/their country etc etc, whereas from an objective/non-human perspective all humans have the same value.
It is immoral when you impact others adversely based on the fact that you dont care for their well being as much as you care for the well being of your own.
Perhaps both of us are wearing tinted lenses, but I dont see a reason for supposing that that is the case for the quotes you posted except for the first one.
Substitute the word "Muslim" with something you and I both would strongly identify with. Say brother. so "it is such a great tragedy. Muslims have killed Muslims - what could be worse?", becomes "it is such a great tragedy. Brothers have killed Brothers- what could be worse?". Do you feel saying that would be immoral?