WahWah, that's what floored me last night. I kept thinking about the preciousness of babies and then I proceeded to (I know) bore dp. I ended up with this train of thought:
I am somewhere to the peaceful side of Greenham Common on the subject of war, althought I appreciate that we have a well-trained army in this country, I just hate it.
So, given that soldiers do their thing that they have been trained to do? Young men fighting young men. Not ideal, but it happens. Soldiers kill people. So, I think to myself, a 23 year old soldiier can kill another 23 year old soldier and tell themselve that they had to do it for whatever political cause. But not babies.
At this point my dp suggested that they were on drugs, which I agree could explain I suppose pretty much Anything, but I have read nothing to suggest this. I supppppose religion could be regarded as having the same affect as a drug at a stretch.
That's when I thought of ethnic cleansing. You could think of a baby as not a baby but a future soldier and parent.
Or, perhaps one could have suffered something similar to one's own siblings.
I have been really enjoying the joky bible threads recently and especially enjoyed being wrong and getting redirected.
I just got into enjoying the Bible as a rollicking good read and a valuable oral history and then this. IYSWIM. The biblical aawfulness but in our knowledge and in our time zone.
I don't like knowing about it.