Disturbed.
This is NOT the first post that I wanted to make after a month or so of not posting. However, I think this is an issue that deeply affected me.
I think that there is no justification for brutally mutilating a person and letting him bleed to death. Even if he killed people. Even he used violent means to suppress any opinion or upsurge against him. Even if he was the most awful and autocratic dictator to have been born. Even if he was a bastard that used power to his advantage.
There is no justification for that Al Jazeera clip that shows him bleeding from both legs and being dragged through streets; there is no justification for the killing of his son, and I certainly don't think it's justification enough even if there is any that exists.
I don't see how democracies, western liberal democracies in particular whose perception in the world is that of nations that are founded on the principle of basic Human Rights, can even have the audacity to not stand up against the actions of the NTC, and furthermore, herald its efforts. Especially when, if news reports are to be believed, Gaddafi was shot repeatedly in his legs while he pleaded for help. It's the same hypocrisy that aggravates me. There is no "higher moral ground" that you stand on when you use cruelty against someone and justify it by saying that he was cruel.
It makes me sick to see that the morality of individuals is compromised to such a great extent that there is in fact absolutely no condemnation of your acts as long as your "cause is just and your ends are achieved." I would have been happy, no, ecstatic, if Gaddafi had been captured and made to go through the due process of law. I'm disturbed, however, by the last pictures that I see of him in the media. No one deserved that. The only thing I believe you owe a fellow human, no matter who he is, is the dignity of being treated a human.
I don't even think animals are made to suffer the indignity of such deaths. I'm sickened the world heralds it as a game-changer for the middle east and chooses to ignore the way his death came about.
I think that there is no justification for brutally mutilating a person and letting him bleed to death. Even if he killed people. Even he used violent means to suppress any opinion or upsurge against him. Even if he was the most awful and autocratic dictator to have been born. Even if he was a bastard that used power to his advantage.
There is no justification for that Al Jazeera clip that shows him bleeding from both legs and being dragged through streets; there is no justification for the killing of his son, and I certainly don't think it's justification enough even if there is any that exists.
I don't see how democracies, western liberal democracies in particular whose perception in the world is that of nations that are founded on the principle of basic Human Rights, can even have the audacity to not stand up against the actions of the NTC, and furthermore, herald its efforts. Especially when, if news reports are to be believed, Gaddafi was shot repeatedly in his legs while he pleaded for help. It's the same hypocrisy that aggravates me. There is no "higher moral ground" that you stand on when you use cruelty against someone and justify it by saying that he was cruel.
It makes me sick to see that the morality of individuals is compromised to such a great extent that there is in fact absolutely no condemnation of your acts as long as your "cause is just and your ends are achieved." I would have been happy, no, ecstatic, if Gaddafi had been captured and made to go through the due process of law. I'm disturbed, however, by the last pictures that I see of him in the media. No one deserved that. The only thing I believe you owe a fellow human, no matter who he is, is the dignity of being treated a human.
I don't even think animals are made to suffer the indignity of such deaths. I'm sickened the world heralds it as a game-changer for the middle east and chooses to ignore the way his death came about.