Saturday, October 31, 2009
Thought to ponder
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My 15 minutes of blogging fame are over. A new profile is up at normblog. It is of "Bataween, a journalist and mother of four, took her moniker from a residential district of Baghdad, Iraq, where her parents used to live. Bataween (the district) used to be almost entirely Jewish, and where once there were 150,000 Jews in Iraq, there are now seven."
Humor aside, in one of her answers, Bataween makes an comment that has lodged itself in my head as today's idea to think about:
Humor aside, in one of her answers, Bataween makes an comment that has lodged itself in my head as today's idea to think about:
What philosophical thesis do you think it most important to combat?In the post-Che and post-911 era as we all attempt to figure out how to co-habit one large world, this is an interesting and challenging opinion.
The idea that the root cause of terrorism lies in legitimate grievances.
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