Sad, Naive but a "nice" gesture
Interesting and sad news about a "peace" activist/artist.
She was murdered.
You can read the short news report yourself, so I'll skip the highlight... but I will say it is both sad and nice. It's nice cause of what (and why) she was trying to accomplish. But very very misguided. The BBC says about her:
" She had said she wanted to show that she could put her trust in the kindness of local people."
She was murdered.
That is the true and classical definition of irony. Clearly she proved the exact opposite of she was trying to accomplish. You can't trust everybody. Even Jesus (who many people associate with love, compassion and grace) taught us to use our judgement wisely (he did not, as many love to think, tell us not to judge --- he taught one should do it wisely, without condemning others and without hypocrisy). A cynic (which I am not) may point out that this was bound to happen to her. A cynic would be ignoring reality. She made it from Italy to Turkey fine. Had she not encountered that one man, she may have made it to her destination without too much difficulty... and "proven" her point. Vast majority of people aren't out to harm others (at least purposefully). But some are.
And her case just reminds us of that. It's sad really. But I suspect that people like this only come from nicer countries where they haven't had to encounter too much hardship growing. Or at least nice neighbourhood/areas. Cause anyone who grew up down and out (and this seems to be the case with the a huge chunk of the worlds population) would never have done this.
It's just too naive.
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ሰላም ዮሃንስ
She was murdered.
You can read the short news report yourself, so I'll skip the highlight... but I will say it is both sad and nice. It's nice cause of what (and why) she was trying to accomplish. But very very misguided. The BBC says about her:
" She had said she wanted to show that she could put her trust in the kindness of local people."
She was murdered.
That is the true and classical definition of irony. Clearly she proved the exact opposite of she was trying to accomplish. You can't trust everybody. Even Jesus (who many people associate with love, compassion and grace) taught us to use our judgement wisely (he did not, as many love to think, tell us not to judge --- he taught one should do it wisely, without condemning others and without hypocrisy). A cynic (which I am not) may point out that this was bound to happen to her. A cynic would be ignoring reality. She made it from Italy to Turkey fine. Had she not encountered that one man, she may have made it to her destination without too much difficulty... and "proven" her point. Vast majority of people aren't out to harm others (at least purposefully). But some are.
And her case just reminds us of that. It's sad really. But I suspect that people like this only come from nicer countries where they haven't had to encounter too much hardship growing. Or at least nice neighbourhood/areas. Cause anyone who grew up down and out (and this seems to be the case with the a huge chunk of the worlds population) would never have done this.
It's just too naive.
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ሰላም ዮሃንስ
posted by Selam at 12:24 p.m.
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