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You should try to understand my words. I try to understand yours.
that is why I understand now that my choice of words was denying YOU your individuality (not the Serbians). But it wasn't meant to be literal. After all, I know that you are an individual. I know more of what you say than many people you know.
If that was the point, you made it very badly. You asked us if anyone would disagree. That's categoric, not about majorities. What's more, it seems to be calling for sympathy and agreement. In light of your "taking refuge" comment, I also sense disdain for opinions other than spiteful nationalist.
But, now understanding your words, I do agree that a majority will feel like that. It is just this dynamics I fear.
I don't know where you come to this issue, but for me it is too close to home. I lived in what became Croatia, I saw it before, and I saw it after, including the ethnic-cleansed parts. And the damage in the heads, there is say the Croatian ship-boy I talked to, and asked about the ethnic cleansings, and he would justify it with the evils done by the JNA and the "Republic". *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
What we have produced along his thread was an escalade. "disdain" comes after "refuge" which comes after "y" which comes after "x" which ... which ...
In the British Navy of old, as punishment, a number of sailors used to be tied to a wheel, and each given a whip, to beat in the back of the man in front. What started with minor slashes ended always in violent whipping. Because people:
1- underestimate the pain the other person feels (a 40% difference, it is said) 2 -tend to forget why the other fellow reacted faster than the reason we beated on him
It is suggested that the reasons for that are respectively: 1- our sensors of pain detect only our pain 2 -our apparatus of reasoning can store more easily our reasons than other's.
I think we can agree that nationhood is a whip ready to fall on the back of every man, and the Balkans are a giant wheel amongst many.
Reference? There are a number of stupidly violent punishments administered by the Royal Navy in the past. but that one I've never heard of. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Two Eyes for an Eye: The Neuroscience of Force Escalation. Sukhwinder S. Shergill, Paul M. Bays Chris D. Frith, Daniel M. Wolpert. Science 11 July 2003: Vol. 301. no. 5630, p. 187
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the Social Contract is the sole legitimiser of the existence of a state. Therefore the establishment of a social contract between a European state and a European Volk[2] is the absolute requirement for the practical abolition of nation-states in a major part of the Europe.
[1] Natural monopolies providing cheap and efficient supply of goods required for all activities (such as EDF) are everyday manifestation of the social contract. [2] Hence the need for many politicians to avoid the creation of a european citizenship.
the solution for eliminating Nations is making the social contract unnecessary.
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