If you had the power, would you kill all who were racist or evil?

[vB3Dev.Com]

If you had the power, would you kill all who were racist or evil?
Just think about it for a second. If you had infinite power on your hands, would you make it your duty to kill off people who discriminaye against others, or who are just plain evil? Be honest. I personaly probaly would, even though we will always have evil and racism, it's part of life unfourtanately.

[MUG]

No.

[Wayne Luke]

No, because then you become what you hate. I don't have to believe in what someone says to believe they have the right to say it or think it is wrong. That is the true power of Freedom of Speech.

[phill2003]

no, that would make you as bad as them........

violence never solves anything whether well intentioned or not!!

although i would be genuinely interested to find out how and why the racists think as they do, as i cant seem to fathom their logic....

[vB3Dev.Com]

although i would be genuinely interested to find out how and why the racists think as they do, as i cant seem to fathom their logic....

I second that!

[Vile]

Two wrongs don't always make a right...

[Wayne Luke]

Two wrongs don't always make a right...

Do they ever?

However, 3 lefts will make a right... At least while driving.

[DirectPixel]

If I had infinite power, I would get some uber-coders so vB3 will be released tomorrow.

[stanmxl]

Why are Americans so obsessed with "Racism"?

And what's wrong with discrimination? It's just to make a distinction. I treat some people differently than I treat others based on a great deal of factors and situations. I treat a Japanese person differently than I treat a Dutchman because of a great deal of cultural formalities which differ depending on the person. Does that mean I should die for discriminating?

But murder, that's the only evil that transcends all of this and you even thinking about it shows how evil you are. You would yourself die if you killed all who were evil.

[Bema Jinn]

If i had the power to kill that many people, surely i'd have the power to try to make them change their minds. in the end, it's all about free will.

[stanmxl]

If i had the power to kill that many people, surely i'd have the power to try to make them change their minds. in the end, it's all about free will.

Forget free will, let's force everyone to think the same way.

What a boring world we would live in.

[Bema Jinn]

Who would we flame on our forums?

[stanmxl]

no, that would make you as bad as them........

violence never solves anything whether well intentioned or not!!

although i would be genuinely interested to find out how and why the racists think as they do, as i cant seem to fathom their logic....

It really is quite simple. It became when genetics was a growing field, and a concept called Social Darwinism came up. We started to learn all about survival of the fittest, how the best adapted creatures were able to survive. Well, while all Europeans were living great lives and colonizing every foreign land. Look at a map of the world and most of it has, at one time, been ruled by a European power--people of white descant. People of other races of other lands have never been able to accomplish much of what whites have done. Whites industrialized the world, they unified it, they conquered it. What's more interesting, is that most colonial possesions weren't giving up by losing a battle, but just by giving them up. Look at most of the African colonies, those were just given up. The US gained its independance, but that was Whites fighting against Whites. In South America, most of the key fighters and leaders fighting against Spain were in fact of Spanish or other European heritage.

Most of the world lives in poverty, but when you look at white populations over the world, they're always among the elite few. Travel around the world a few times, you'll see this yourself.

Now you can understand why people can see, through history, why racism exits. It also exists on a smaller scale in several regions. The Japanese counquered most of Asia, and Koreans and Chinese still harbor a lot of resentment towards Japanese colonial rule (which it picked up by westernizing). People are naturally racist. Look at minorities groups all over the world and you will see they naturally stick with their own kind and breed with their own kind. Interracial marriages happen, but at about the same rate they have in the past. A great example of this happening is in Macau. In America, especially, immigrant groups stick together.

[someuser190826]

I always thought there was a time way before that you are talking of. Not sure :-/

[Beorn]

Did anyone else think of Hitler when they read this thread? He claimed that he was cleansing Germany, that he was getting rid of the evil and the bad, in addition to the ones who made society 'less perfect.'

Stooping to the level of those you're against is hardly anything to be proud of....