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My personal view is that everything went wrong after 9/11 (and the way the West responded to it). Once facts are overlooked, by entire governments, in order to restore some kind of 'justice', and countries invaded and regime-change forced, nothing else if off the table. Suddenly torture et al is OK, and all this is instigated by heads of state, so why wouldn't people think everything else is perfectly acceptable? But again, this is very much IMHO.
Derail ends
finger_jockey
Religious/irreligious - the difference? Intolerance would probably be the common ground, whether by race or religion.
I’m thinking of giving up reading the news as my addiction to it depresses me daily.
I try to teach my daughter right from wrong but the lines seem to be very blurry now. Heads of state, who should set an appropriate standard, are now populous figures and seem beyond what I consider ‘normal’ people. Voting for personality rather than substance is now the norm. Where did it all go wrong? X-Factor, Big Brother, etc
I’m old and grumpy and the world is going to shit ....