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It doesn't actually "solve" anything, but the general rule is that if someone does something horrible to you and you do nothing, you're inviting them to do it again.

Quips and whatnot work fine for small stuff of no real danger, but it's a bit different when your kids are dead in your house that was bombed.

I hear ya. Was thinking more in the context of what someone in Ukraine that's suffered great loss, is entitled to, in terms of justice(or "eye for an eye"). There is no mechanism for justice, at least not right now. If they took matters into their own hands, I'd have a hard time passing a...

In the animal kingdom, you have to fuck 'em up. Absent law enforcement, the world isn't much different from how they deal with this stuff in prison. It sucks and I absolutely hate the caveman mentality and the complete inability to reason with people, but that's what it is, if you want to...

Yeahhhhh but that almost gets into the "are we really here??" level of philosophy. For all intents and purposes while remaining connected to the practice of it today, self-defense must happen "in the moment".

Well, self-defense is extremely time sensitive. If someone punches you and runs 100ft away before you know what happened, then you chase him down and punch him back, it's not self-defense. What would you think if there were a family down the street that didn't like your family for whatever...

At the same time, you can't be a floormat. I do think that anyone that's lost a child/spouse/parent/sibling from Putin's war, is pretty much clear to take anyone from him.

Ironically, it's all he can see.

You said, "you Americans need to get over this race thing" and that's not a questioning of validity, which is ironic considering how softly is was brought up. It started as just a question, then it was suggested as playing a role. It was your reaction to that which made race a big deal in this...

It looked like you saw the topic of race/color and blew it up into something way too big. All he did was ask a question and explain how it plays a role, which it does. You seemed to take offense to that, complaining about race sensitive while being overly race sensitive yourself. That's how it...

I posted in here on this topic of race before you, mate. Maybe you just jumped in..?

Word. Friendly association.

Someone asked a question. I know it was, yet I still posted these same thoughts before you were here, yet I "jumped in".

I was posting in this thread on this very subject of race before you were. Go read the first page, you know...before you joined this forum. Well...before you created your current user anyway.

People you've never interreacted with in any way? I think that's just commonality. Anyway, we may be getting a bit too pedantic on this one.

Right, that's your perception of it and I'm trying to explain how I don't think your binary perception is accurate. It looks like you're complaining about race sensitive while also being too race sensitive.

The ticket scenario? I think a relationship is required for fellowship, no? Can you have fellowship with a stranger halfway around the world?

Because you didn't mention it, because it didn't fit your concentration on race, while simultaneously complaining about a concentration on race.

It's nature/psychology, nothing to do with "me". The more similarities people share, the easier it becomes for people to relate, and the easier it is to relate, the easier it is to empathize. And you'll notice I mentioned the city as well, because it's not about skin color, it's about...

Was thinking more how relatability leads to empathy. I think fellowship is a component of a relationship, but empathy does not require any association with people/s.