GannonFan wrote:Pwns wrote:
Liberal groups say we can't punish mentally ill people in the same way we punish regular people because they really can't understand what they are doing and can't be held responsible for it. But when one of these people does something like this they hang on every spoken or written word of these people and ascribe these complex motives and emotions to these people. At least as long as it goes along with one of their pet causes. Every mass shooter has multiple mental maladies, a lack of empathy, and a persecution complex. What's the most likely explanation for this shooting then, GF?
It's not a lot different than all the hullabaloo about violence in media when it was revealed that Eric Harris and Devon Klebold played violent computer games. It's just the red herring for this particular shooting. I bet within 20 years climate change will be blamed for these shootings (mass shootings have increased as temperatures have risen, you know).
And so what if people use words like "cunt" and "bitch"? You ever hear anyone call a woman a "dick" or a "prick"? It's just gender-specific words that basically refer to the same thing. That must mean there's some misandry on this board also, right?
The difference is, though, that misogyny is very much alive and well in many cultures around the world, it's not just one more mental malady. Perfectly fine and rational people in the world still participate in the sex slave trade, they still kidnap 200 girls in Nigeria, they still say women shouldn't play sports or have equal access to college scholarships to play sports, they still criticize a woman politician for how she looks or dresses when they wouldn't do the same for a man, they still make women cover any and all skin and don't allow them to vote or drive a car, they still say a woman can't do math or science, and so on. So yeah, sure, this whacko certainly had a lot more wrong with him than just his distorted view on women, but it does shed light on an ugly reality of our world, and something that even people on this board skirt dangerously close to on many ocassions, and that reality is that women often do have it pretty rough in this world just because they are women and because there are too many men that are dicks, and too many fathers raising their sons to carry on that tradition.
Gannon, your fucking worthless religion was and is a major oppressor of women and other victims.
Here's some of the apologies made by John Paull II - The Pedophile's Pope
The conquest of Mesoamerica by Spain in the name of the Church[2][3][4][5]
The legal process on the Italian scientist and philosopher Galileo Galilei, himself a devout Catholic, around 1633 (31 October 1992).[2][3][4][5]
Catholics' involvement with the African slave trade (9 August 1993).[2][3][4][5]
The Church's role in burnings at the stake and the religious wars that followed the Protestant Reformation (May 1995, in the Czech Republic).[2][3][4][5]
The injustices committed against women, the violation of women's rights and for the historical denigration of women (10 July 1995, in a letter to "every woman").[2][3][4][5]
The inactivity and silence of many Catholics during the Holocaust (16 March 1998)[2][3][4][5]
For the execution of Jan Hus in 1415 (18 December 1999 in Prague). When John Paul II visited Prague in 1990s, he requested experts in this matter "to define with greater clarity the position held by Jan Hus among the Church's reformers, and acknowledged that "independently of the theological convictions he defended, Hus cannot be denied integrity in his personal life and commitment to the nation's moral education." It was another step in building a bridge between Catholics and Protestants.[2][3][4][5]
For the sins of Catholics throughout the ages for violating "the rights of ethnic groups and peoples, and [for showing] contempt for their cultures and religious traditions". (12 March 2000, during a public Mass of Pardons).[2][3][4][5]
For the actions of the Crusader attack on Constantinople in 1204. To the Patriarch of Constantinople he said "Some memories are especially painful, and some events of the distant past have left deep wounds in the minds and hearts of people to this day. I am thinking of the disastrous sack of the imperial city of Constantinople, which was for so long the bastion of Christianity in the East. It is tragic that the assailants, who had set out to secure free access for Christians to the Holy Land, turned against their own brothers in the faith. The fact that they were Latin Christians fills Catholics with deep regret. How can we fail to see here the mysterium iniquitatis at work in the human heart? ".[2][3][4][5]
On 20 November 2001, from a laptop in the Vatican, Pope John Paul II sent his first e-mail apologising for the Catholic sex abuse cases, the Church-backed "Stolen Generations" of Aboriginal children in Australia, and to China for the behaviour of Catholic missionaries in colonial times.[6]
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
— Pope John Paul II [7]
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