Comments on: Darfur: Why I Dont Give a Damn

By: SkunkTail

SkunkTail — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 00:41:14 +0000

Well said! You perfectly articulated my exact feelings on the subject. You even managed to throw in an Ayn Rand quote you libertarian you.

By: New School Politics » Apparently, I “don’t regard human life”

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:14:51 +0000

[...] author of liberal content: While those without much regard for human life (perhaps Ryan’s post “Darfur: Why I Don’t Give a Damn” best summarizes the perspective of these individuals) continue to emphasize that Darfur is [...]

By: New School Politics » UN Commits 26,000 Troops to Darfur

New School Politics » UN Commits 26,000 Troops to Darfur — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 13:24:00 +0000

[...] in Darfur. While those without much regard for human life (perhaps Ryan’s post “Darfur: Why I Don’t Give a Damn” best summarizes the perspective of these individuals) continue to emphasize that Darfur is [...]

By: LIberalDemocrat

LIberalDemocrat — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:40:18 +0000

The Janjaweed are my heroes :).

By: Arthus Erea

Arthus Erea — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:32:11 +0000

I can not even begin to say how self centered and completely heartless that is… Wanting people to be dead just so you don’t have to hear about them.

For one thing, nobody makes you read about Darfur… plenty of people don’t. By that same idea, maybe we should just kill all poor people in America so we don’t have to hear about economic integration… Oh, and let’s kill all the celebrities so we don’t have to hear about them… In fact, let’s just kill everyone so we don’t have to hear about them.

Genocide does not require that everyone is already dead: it just means a group is trying to kill everyone from another group: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide
There are still Jews alive, yet you can’t deny the holocaust was a genocide.

By: LiberalDemocrat

LiberalDemocrat — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:32:11 +0000

If there was really a genocide in the Sudan, wouldn’t they all be dead by now? This thing has been going on for a long time, and personally, i’m sick of hearing about it. I don’t care about Darfur. I kind of wish the Janjaweed would hurry up with it, because if there are no Darfurians left, the media can’t whine about it.

By: Simmons

Simmons — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:30:14 +0000

“My comment was completely clear”

It should have said, “My comment was completely UNclear”. Sorry; that was unclear

By: Chou

Chou — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:21:39 +0000

Here’s the thing though: the 25% is not being affected by this at all. Either way, they will send money to help. 75% of the people, however, don’t want to help out for various reasons. Why should they be forced to help if they don’t want to? This could apply vice-versa to minorities, I suppose. People should be able to control their own lives.

Besides, in this case, it is the majority that is losing their rights.

By: Arthus Erea

Arthus Erea — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:02:21 +0000

You have 3 slices of cake and 4 people. 3 of them helped make the cake. However, the fourth refused to help. The 3 people (the majority) believe they should divide the slices equally amongs the 3 makers. However, the fourth protests this is “taking away his rights.” If the majority feels something and it follows basic principles of fairness, why should the minority have a right?

By: Simons

Simons — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:11:10 +0000

My comment was completely clear. I meant if 75% of people disagreed with supporting others rights.

No, John Locke wouldn’t advocate that. He strongly believed all humans have basic rights. He would support trying to save those in Darfur.