are not yet acted on the matter
Virginia Tech,
mainly because, in a saner world, this would not
a certain kind of accident
which you should take a
deployed. Yesterday, however (...) I was asked
what I thought and I realized they
increasingly annoyed and disturbed by
manner and tone in which the story was reported by the media
. (...) Monday night on Fox News
, Geraldo Rivera
proclaimed that we must accept the fact that, in this horrible
world in which we live, our "children"
must be "protected."
First: are not "children."
Students at Virginia Tech were
and women (if you pardon the expression)
now grown men. Would be considered as adult in
any other company in the entire history of our planet.
Okay, we live in a culture selectively
childishness, in which
twentysomethings are "children" if they serve
in the Third Infantry Division in Ramadi but "
grown people" capable of making rational decisions
if you lie down on the carpet in the Office
Oval Office of the President Clinton. Nevertheless, it is extremely dangerous to consider
fully grown adults as
of children must be protected. We should raise our children rather
making him understand that in the course of life,
there will be times when we must protect
alone, and that, in a "horrible,"
there may even be times when
must choose whether
protect themselves or others. The fact that, in those first crucial seconds
where you have to make a decision,
only an elderly Holocaust survivor, Professor Librescu
, he instinctively understood that
had a duty to act
offers a truly sad
of our situation.
Second: the cost of a company
"protection" of eternal "children" is too high.
Every December 6th, the date of my personal
recurrence, down the flags at half mast
and call into question the entire male gender
Canadian
responsibility of the "Montreal Massacre" when
fourteen students from the École Polytechnique
were killed by Marc Lepine (born Gamil Gharbi
, son of an Algerian Muslim
who beat his wife, even if these
news does not read newspapers). The image
which qualifies the current Canadian male
is not that of Marc Lepine / Gharbi Gamil
but the professors and students
present in that class, who, when that
lone gunman ordered
leave the classroom, have meekly obeyed,
abandoned to their sad fate of their fellow female students
studies - an act of cowardice
that would have been unimaginable in any other culture throughout human history
. The "men" were waiting in the hallway and
, even when they
started hearing the first shots, have not done anything
. Then, when the shots are over and Gharbi is
came out of the classroom and went
front, they have again moved a finger
. Whatever may be the other
all its faults, it certainly can not say that the male Canadian
is characterized by an excess of testosterone.
I always thought that America is different.
On September 11 they have been testing.
The only good news of that terrible day
was the reaction of passengers who
not have been content to follow the old procedures pedestrian
Seventy years of hijackings on
but acted as individuals born free. A few months later, when Richard Reid
bent to try to
detonate explosives hidden in his shoes at that moment
even the French have had the courage to attack him and put
ko.
not do good to our children
them grow in belief that you can entrust everything to
security blanket
government. The "protection" style
Geraldo Rivera is a delusion: when something suddenly goes wrong
-
on a plane took off from Logan in a serene
morning of September or in a peaceful
university campus - there is no ready status
to protect you. You yourself will be called
to make a decision. As said
my distinguished compatriot Kathy Shaidle:
"When we say 'we do not know what
we would do in similar circumstances',
we only accept
as cowardice the default position, attitude
normal and automatic." I
seems more accurate to say that the default position is a liability
terribly unnerving. The lonely misfits
killer with delusions are fortunately rare. But this passivity
hateful and corrosive
is ubiquitous and, unlike Assassin
psychopath, is an existential threat to society
.
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