[eDebate] Are you the "iowa farm boy or girl"?

[Andy Ellis]

is calculating
the bigest sin,or obeying
eichman perhaps says


On 7/5/07, debate at ou.edu <debate at ou.edu> wrote:

>

> Who commits an act of genocide?

> What does it take?

> Crazy people for sure

> Only crazy people could do such a thing

> We talk of genocide like it's a verb

> Genocided genocided

> Are you that iowa farm boy

> Or girl

> Not really iowa

> Just like not really eichmann

> Order from above

> Don't ask questions

> Get in line

> Make the trains run on time

> Decision making as a process

> Or ethics in decision making?

> Are we happy we even had trains?

>

> Are you a future participant

> You know in the act

> The disdainful act

> Like whats going on in darfur

> Or the tutsis and the hutus

> Could you be either one

> Living in your world

> is the genocide you participate in known?

> Or uknown?

> Aware or unaware?

>

> Routinized decision making

> Bow to the idol

> I can do the method the best

> But what if

> What if

> What if you are called to war

> Brought into battle

> Or are you too good for such

> Only good enough to calculate but not participate?

> What has your method of thinking brought you too

> In the village

> Or city

> Or dessert

> The radio says shoot

> Do you  fire the missiles from the ship

> A careful decision calculus has to be made

> Who benefits?

> Who dies ?

> Who suffers?

> How much are you to blame?

> What rationality I can make this time to ease my mind

> What are we educated to do?

>

> jm

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