Quote Originally Posted by medicinal
The problem is it is very real when the previous generation is your dads, or uncle or mom, and when your generation, brother-sister-cousin are being killed. I don't know about you, but lets take a hypothetical: The Mexicans have invaded us, that's a fact. They even claim this is their homeland, that's a fact. Now say they start herding us out of our homes and start shooting those that resist, bringing in tanks and helicopter gunships, giving us Sandiego and Santa Barbara counties, and building a wall surrounding us. Then when we fight back with rocks and slingshots they kill our youth and leaders. Now, you have had several members of your immediate family killed, you see an opportunity to kill a few mexicans, what would you do?
Well personally I wouldn't "kill a few mexicans", but that's just me, probably not most people. These are just my views, but I detest violence when it can avoided, and I truly believe a big part of society's problem with violence, racism, any generalization, is that we attribute the actions of a few to the responsibility of the many just because of racial or national affiliation. The fact is, the people in the 9/11 attacks didn't deserve to die for the actions of American government. The people of Israel don't deserve to die because their government commited a great injustive.

I'm not saying I don't understand it, I'm saying it's not justifiable. We need to start judging people as people, not by their race/nationality/sexual orientation/ whatever else you use to lump the people together. We're always going to keep finding reasons to hate each other, what I'd like to see for once is there being a larger group of people who try to find peace with each other.