it's official

I am tired/bored of all the cliched arguments people enjoy rehashing over and over and over again. Some of these people I've been arguing for the past 3 - 4 years, and they seem to think that by repeating the same lines I will be brainwashed into believing them. Like, for example, sectarian antagonism (as opposed to thinking of yourself as Christian/Muslim) is something so natural that we should just accept it and move on. Or that ... this has been on hold for a while, but has been brought up with the recent cartoon controversy ... Islam is inherently violent, and that the Muslim culture (and when asked to explain what that is, they reply with "what do you mean? It's just their culture.") is incompatible with other religions. Or even with more specfic details, concerning a certain leader, or a certain "role model", or a ...

... and now, after years of trying to present different views, and just being faced with the typical "la2 la2, you see, that's not the way it is at ALL. You have to understand that's just the way it is ..." I am bored. I am open to being persuaded, but just not with predictable explanations such as "it's human nature" or "these things just never change" or "he really does care about the country" or ...

posted by Lazarus, 9:46 AM