Things you don't understand

seamus · 21-02-2018 10:27AM

Deleted User wrote: »

The additionally disturbing thing is that I left there thinking about whether this could happen again and I see no reason why greater technology combined with group think and dehumanisation of other humans couldn't lead to a repeat.

There are many recent examples, maybe not death camps, but as good as - you've got the genocide in Rwanda and Bosnia in the 90's, the ongoing genocides in Myanmar as a contemporary examples.

We even have examples from "civilised" countries, that are on a much smaller scale but still have dehumanisation and tribalism at their roots - such as the rendition of innocent people and abuse of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay.

It will always be a factor in humanity so long as religions and nations exist. It's a biological imperative that we separate ourselves into community groups and identify ourselves as a "member" of that group. A person may identify themselves as a langer and have a friendly begrudging of jackeens. But that's all it is; friendly begrudgery.

It requires organisational structures like governments and religions to turn that social segregation into murderous hatred.

Wibbs · 21-02-2018 10:34AM

sbsquarepants wrote: »

The holocaust is shocking in it's scale and barbarity, but the only thing that really separates it from other genocides is it's assembly line style industrial nature.

+1. I think it shocks us the most because it was so clinical and cold blooded, so business like. There was no excuse to be found in heat of the moment anger. It was a little too human in its terrible ingenuity.

The Japanese could be equally as deadly in intent as far as mass killings in occupied China went. QV the Nanking Massacre alone where a few hundred thousand men women and children were raped and murdered over a period of little more than a month. It was a slaughter house, but it wasn't industrially organised with middle managers stamping files in offices somewhere.

pgj2015 · 21-02-2018 10:42AM

people on dating sites who have no job, no education, are 30 +, yet say they are ambitious?

valoren · 21-02-2018 10:50AM

When I wave my hand very fast in front of me I can see my hand twice at both ends of it's waving 'arc'. Trying to find out what that phenomenon is called....

AustinLostin · 21-02-2018 10:51AM

I don't understand why death of Catherine Nevin is being so heavily reported on? I get she's infamous but it was literally headline news. Wouldn't mind a little article at the back of the paper but don't see why death of a murderer due to terminal illness is such headline news.

Chancer3001 · 21-02-2018 10:52AM

pgj2015 wrote: »

people on dating sites who have no job, no education, are 30 +, yet say they are ambitious?

They have ambitions to get a job and or education?

Or have ambitions to travel the world or climb all the mountains or become the best at their sport?

Ambition isn't limited to job or book learning

sbsquarepants · 21-02-2018 10:58AM

valoren wrote: »

When I wave my hand very fast in front of me I can see my hand twice at both ends of it's waving 'arc'. Trying to find out what that phenomenon is called....

Mushrooms:D

Cee-Jay-Cee · 21-02-2018 11:06AM

I don't understand Chinese writing.

sbsquarepants · 21-02-2018 11:09AM

Wibbs wrote: »

+1. I think it shocks us the most because it was so clinical and cold blooded, so business like. There was no excuse to be found in heat of the moment anger. It was a little too human in its terrible ingenuity.

.

This is the part that really makes me shudder. There had to be committees and meetings, people took notes and circulated minutes, brainstormed ideas and all the other bolloxology that goes with any other business meeting. Probably had a nice cup of tea and a biscuit while discussing the pro's and cons of Zyklon B over Zyklon A or C.

Mental!

pgj2015 · 21-02-2018 12:01PM

Chancer3001 wrote: »

They have ambitions to get a job and or education?

Or have ambitions to travel the world or climb all the mountains or become the best at their sport?

Ambition isn't limited to job or book learning

maybe but I think most of these peoples ambitions are little more than heading out drinking with their girlos :pac:

Steve F · 21-02-2018 12:08PM

Cina wrote: »

Snapchat.

I just don't get it.

Have you checked your connection
Turn it off and on again

NickNickleby · 21-02-2018 12:16PM

valoren wrote: »

When I wave my hand very fast in front of me I can see my hand twice at both ends of it's waving 'arc'. Trying to find out what that phenomenon is called....

its called "persistence of vision" a phenomenon which made 'movies' possible. I think its fascinating the amount of science that was understood over a hundred years ago, and then how our knowledge (that's the Royal 'our'

- a dig at my own humble capability ) has developed since.

Steve F · 21-02-2018 12:16PM

Things I don't understand??
Where to begin?
My whole life has consisted of me pretending to know what I'm doing whilst in reality being a backwards version of Fr Dougal from Father Ted
I am an utter spoofer!! &#55357;&#56832;

heldel00 · 21-02-2018 12:20PM

Steve F wrote: »

Things I don't understand??
Where to begin?
My whole life has consisted of me pretending to know what I'm doing whilst in reality being a backwards version of Fr Dougal from Father Ted
I am an utter spoofer!! ��

At least you're honest!

pickarooney · 21-02-2018 12:20PM

valoren wrote: »

When I wave my hand very fast in front of me I can see my hand twice at both ends of it's waving 'arc'. Trying to find out what that phenomenon is called....

Optical flow?

The_Kew_Tour · 21-02-2018 12:24PM

I'm a little bit of a cleaning freak and I like have my House tidy etc.

But people who live in filthy places. I dont understand who could eat in place that got awful Smell or dirty.

Some people have very little pride. I don't expect people be spotless but just some bit of effort.

anon322 · 21-02-2018 12:28PM

Kids being scared of Bully’s , why ? Hit the waster with something heavy square in the face and they won’t bother you again

akelly02 · 21-02-2018 12:31PM

why do all junkies look the exact same? carbon copies of each other

anon322 · 21-02-2018 12:33PM

akelly02 wrote: »

why do all junkies look the exact same? carbon copies of each other

Glitch in the matrix

pgj2015 · 21-02-2018 12:37PM

anon322 wrote: »

Kids being scared of Bully’s , why ? Hit the waster with something heavy square in the face and they won’t bother you again

Also kids being bullied on social media, get off it maybe? its like would you keep putting your hand on an electric fence after the first shock?

georgina toadbum · 21-02-2018 01:10PM

Why people lie.

anon322 · 21-02-2018 02:45PM

georgina toadbum wrote: »

Why people lie.

A deep seeded belief that the truth will hurt either themselves or others.

sbsquarepants · 22-02-2018 11:29AM

georgina toadbum wrote: »

Why people lie.

Everybody lies, yourself included!

Not every lie is malicious.

Dial Hard · 22-02-2018 01:25PM

A friend's insistence that it's "kinder" (

) to ghost women after a date than just send them a "Thanks but no thanks" text.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer · 22-02-2018 01:36PM

Why the Israel-Palestine conflict attracts so much attention and bitter debate in countries like Ireland, when other, much worse conflicts are often ignored.

Pyr0 · 22-02-2018 02:35PM

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

Why the Israel-Palestine conflict attracts so much attention and bitter debate in countries like Ireland, when other, much worse conflicts are often ignored.

According to Wikipedia, there are currently 18 serious armed conflicts on going around the world. Feel free to take your pick and get a debate going!

_Dara_ · 22-02-2018 07:30PM

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

Why the Israel-Palestine conflict attracts so much attention and bitter debate in countries like Ireland, when other, much worse conflicts are often ignored.

I know. If you even just mention an Israeli person in the presence of some people I know, you’ll be subjected to a rant. For these people, it seems okay to hate every Israeli person.

Bob_Marley · 22-02-2018 07:33PM

sbsquarepants wrote: »

Everybody lies

that's a lie, though granted most people do seem to lie.

Bob_Marley · 22-02-2018 07:36PM

What I don't understand is why there are no reasonably objective unbiased news sources available anymore.

Just do some properly researched journalism, present all the facts and let people make their own minds up, instead of selectively presenting stories and then telling people what they should think.

porte · 22-02-2018 07:39PM

thelad95 wrote: »

As I said, this is a cliche assumption about child psychology. I went too a primary school where we could wear our own clothes and this was never the case. Anecdotal evidence obviously isn't blanket proof but as I mentioned earlier in Finland, no schools have uniforms and empirically, bullying over clothes largely doesn't happen.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2008/aug/11/bullying.schools1

cliche assumption about child psychology. Really.

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