Any other Brits find this image offensive?

[cecilia]

to get back to the first question, no, i'm never "offended" by ANY picture. images, music, films, etc are all there to make people think and provote conversation.

hopefully.
ACTIONS, on the other hand, can often be offensive. I'm offended that this war was started for stupid reasons. namely, profit for the "have mores". I'm offended that people have been needlessly killed and worse for corportations. I'm offended by politians who's every word are lies.
I'm offended by politians using soldiers as pawns. and trying to aline themselves with the bravery that soldiers have without having any themselves. In effect they hide behind their troops. hoping the respect one has to have for the military will spill over on them.

I'm offended that these politians think i am so stupid that i would fall for such crap.

I'm offended by politians being so callous that they don't make plans dealing with a hurricane that they KNOW is on it's way - putting uncounted 1000's in fatal danger.

why waste time talking about a picture when there's so much more to be offended by.

[cecilia]

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:

cecilia wrote:
why waste time talking about a picture when there's so much more to be offended by.

Because people "think" the way they act. A war does not simply begin with a gunshot, a war begins with propaganda.

that's not true, sweets.

honestly. I learned from my grandfather - who spend several years of his teenage years in the trenches exactly WHO is to blame for war.

politicians. their greed. their ego.

while he was sitting in water up to his waist he had no hatred of the germans across the way. he knew they were victims like he was. victims of the stupidity of politians who are too cowardly to fight their own fights. instead they send out others to "argue" for them.

morons.

if people truely understood this we would insist that all heads of governments who have issues with anyone else get into a ring and fight it out themselves. sort of like TV Wrestling. (which i never watch, btw).

that way, they wouldn't have to kill anyone else and might actually provide entertainment for those who like that sort of thing.  :-P

[cecilia]

all of that simply translates to stupidity that prevents people from logically discussing peaceful solutions to problems.

EGO.