"But a person talking in rhythm to his footsteps doesn't get stuck in one's head, so what makes music so special?" But a person's words that coordinate with a rhythm don't get stuck in one's head, so what make music so special? Okay... so the day before yesterday, I wrote about why we should not build the Cordoba house. Hans responded with some counterarguments, and here are my counterarguments to his counterarguments.
Hans Gao's, "Response to Andy's Post" says that we should build the Cordoba house at the area near ground zero. I strongly disagree with this statement.
Gao says that "Wang is saying that “You can build a church here, but not a mosque. Freedom of worship should be upheld – except when I don’t like the religion.”. I don't oppose the mosque because of the religion it supports, Muslim, I oppose the mosque because the religion it supports happens to be the terrorist's religion and that may attract the terrorists to come to America and become a resident. That itself is fine, but if terrorists make America their permanent residence, it would make it a lot easier for them to attack us.
Gao also says, "That is the true spirit of America – Tolerance. To rise above differences and respect people as part of a greater whole – humanity". In this context, that is saying that we should just put the deaths of a few thousand people behind us and respect the terrorists for being human. How can we respect someone even after he killed a few thousand innocent, helpless people for no reason except that they live in a country that the killer hates? Terrorists? Human? I don't think so. They may be physically human, but mentally, they aren't even close to that level.
No normal person would randomly kill thousands of people and blow up a famous building for no reason. It would be somewhat understandable if that person killed the person or group of people that he hates. But killing many people just because they happen to live in the country that the terrorist hates is not human at all.
"Wang’s primary fallacy is equating Muslims with terrorists", Gao said. As I said in my article, I know that not every Muslim is a terrorist. But it is very hard to tell who is a terrorist and who isn't. They all wear the same kinds of clothes and look very similar too.
"This is blatant nonsense, and a clear abuse of extreme, isolated incidents", says Hans counterarguing my statement that "In Europe there is much Muslim car burnings and violence, Belgian police are not advised to drink coffee on some Muslim holidays, women have begun to wear veil to pretend to be Muslims just for protection, and in a few parts of Britain, polygamy and sharia are the laws of the land". All those other countries thought that it wouldn't happen to them either, but it happened anyways. We are just like those countries, being gullible and thinking that disaster will never happen anywhere or anytime.
Gao also says, "By discriminating against Muslims, we are saying that they are the enemy. We are strengthening the terrorists and inspiring more hatred against the U.S.; we are fighting violence with something equally as dangerous and ignorant – intolerance". We are saying that we are the enemy, but haven't the terrorists done that already? They were the ones that made us their enemy by attacking us time after time. Also, by keeping the terrorists out of our country, we protect ourselves by making it harder to access places that they can attack.
I think that we should definitely NOT build the Cordoba house in an area overlooking ground zero.
Wow, very good. You start to organize your thoughts and start to argue with people.
ReplyDeleteKeep in your mind, it is extremely important to develop the skill to persuade people.
If you are good at persuading, you will pretty much get anything you want to own, including the new iPod Touch :-)