I will be honest,
Its not anger, nor hate. Its not some christian belief, or other religion. It is how we define ourselves as humans.
I have to be honest, and blunt, and it disgusted me. Simple as that. In 25 years of sharing ideas, some macro economic, some demographic some climate ... on a lot of mainly scientific type sites and oh, yep helping others at times on a Mental health site helping people dealing with it .. in 25 years, even at times dealing with very ill people, I have never seen such a display as occurred on three threads here, the Christchurch one, the Jordan Peterson one and this one.
I have no anger, nor hate, nor pity as I know they will not and cannot change. My life has been one of beauty and privileged even at lows, people could not imagine. One takes either learning, or compassion or something out of it, or they take anger, hate and blame is often the case.
Despite being trolled by one person 30 times if not more, labelled a Nazi, and a few other goodies. I have no anger or hate, just, a differing view and acceptance of the world. I do not like bullies, I do not accept hate and violence I learnt many years ago, is where good men are sometimes sent to protect us. A coward, is always a coward, afraid of the dark and asking others to join in their torment or intolerance of others.
I will admit, I found it disturbing, for people to be so openly hateful of places they have never been. Cultures they do not know, and choose to live in fear of the unknown. Death, is death and a place not to be feared. Different is different and also not to be feared and often embraced and enjoyed.
As I learnt a lot, not about cowards, trolls or whatever, but a better understanding of issues driving peoples fears, hate and intolerance, I walk away with a bag full of goodies !! A man to admire. I do wish, I was there, Christchurch, in my youth with some of my friends, a wild bunch, sadly most died in one event now over 35 years ago protecting what we now enjoy. The demented gunman would be still wetting himself in fear and we likely would have barely touched him. Cowards are cowards.
Hello Brother, ... I would use that, but unbelievably even one person stooped so low ... what did they say? He said that because he mistook a white boy carrying guns who already had executed several as a member of ISIS. Such hatred and lack of even respect, well, anger is not something I feel, just disgust.
To be exact a person called Value Collector ... on the previous thread ...
Imagine if the reason he said “Hello brother” was because he mistook the gunman for a member of isis or other Islamic group which he sympathized with.
I would expect this not, from a country I love, nor my fellow Australians and in this I include NZ ... it is not and should not be tolerated, but, it is what it is.
Anger, revenge, hate will get you no where. Compassion, love and tolerance of some people being ill, lets me accept it without anger. Sadly they miss parts that make us human. Having faced violence, hate and people at their worst, Value collector and his fellows are the first to run, cry, beg, or urinate ... I say this with a capacity and background in dealing with violence that, is not based in anger.
Strange to deal with someone just saying NO, without threats, anger and so on. Confusing for those who only fear the unknown and with 1.8 billion Muslims, as the pretty young Canadian girl said, if they were all somehow as described, or even 10% of them, the world would be a different place.