Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: Mother of demolished Silwan home: 'Violence begets violence' [View all]Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Nothing said about agreeing with her or accepting her delusion as the truth. Just recognizing that you're looking at a mother who's coping with something truly horrible.
Here in the United States, there are 4,491 mothers whose sons volunteered to travel to the other side of the world to gun down Arabs because the president's god said so, and came home dead for their trouble. A futile, arrogant, and disgusting crusade that resulted in the slaughter of over a hundred thousand Iraqis, the displacement of nearly two million. Do we demand our grieving mothers repudiate their sons, to spit on them, sing about how meaningless their deaths were? Do we scream and howl when they say instead they are "proud" of their son's "service"?
Service to whom? For what? To what gain, and at what cost? Rational questions. But grief is irrational and basic decorum says you don't throw them in the face of a grieving parent.
Attack the perpetrator. Not his mother. or if you must attack her, at least be honest with the rest of us and do tell, what you feel her penalty for not performing for you ought to be. She's already having her home destroyed regardless of her stance, so what else is there to clobber her with? What further penalty, what degradation or abuse heaped on this woman, would bring you the most pleasure? How much should she suffer, before you feel that her debt to you is paid?