Reminder Of How Disgusting Human Beings Can Be
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» moondancer replied on Wed Mar 28, 2007 @ 9:45am |
 Coolness: 92385 | Acid attack on woman shocks Ethiopia
By Amber Henshaw BBC News, Addis Ababa 
Kamilat Mehdi, 21, had a bright future ahead of her. She dreamt about doing a degree and becoming an air hostess. Kamilat Mehdi knew her attacker All that changed one night when she was walking home from work with her two sisters and a stalker threw sulphuric acid in her face. She is now lying in hospital disfigured beyond recognition. Her skin is red raw, her eyelids have almost been entirely destroyed and her hairline has been burnt back. "I feel very sick now. Every day they need to do something without anaesthetic so it is hard to accept and it is very painful," says Kamilat. Her sisters, Zeyneba and Zubyeda, escaped with lesser injuries but their faces were also burnt by the acid. Shockwaves "We were on our way home from our parents' shop. I was with my sisters," Kamilat says. He gave her a hard time but she didn't tell the family for fear that something would happen to them Kamilat's brother Ismael "One guy came and he looked like a drunkard but he wasn't drunk. He forced us to go down a dark alley and then someone came and threw acid in our faces." Kamilat fell to the floor unconscious while her sisters tried to get help. She lay there until her brother Ismael arrived. Ismael says his sister knew her attacker. "He bothered her for a long time - at least four years," he says. "He gave her a hard time but she didn't tell the family for fear that something would happen to them. He was always saying he would use a gun on them." This incident has sent shockwaves through the community in the capital, Addis Ababa, and amongst Ethiopians abroad. Ismael says he has received calls from Ethiopians living around the world saying how angry and shocked they were about the attack. Two men have appeared in court in Addis Ababa in connection with the attack. Sexual harassment "I hope the court will impose a proportional penalty within a short period of time," Justice Minister Assefa Kiseto says. "That could make others learn from this and refrain from committing this crime. I think this kind of crime is a crime against the whole nation not just a crime against Kamilat." Attacks like this are rare in Ethiopia but women's groups in Addis Ababa say that stalking and sexual harassment are common problems. The Ending Violence Against Women report published by the United Nations at the end of last year said almost 60% of Ethiopian women were subjected to sexual violence at some point in their lives. Mahdere Paulos from the Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association says they would like to see a specific provision in Ethiopian law that tackles stalking and harassment so that there is better protection for young girls like Kamilat in the future. "The problem starts with stalking - the end result is something else," she says. "It might end in grave bodily injury, it might end in death and it might end in different difficult situations and that's why we want it to be taken seriously." Following the uproar at Kamilat's attack, the Supreme Court announced that it has put in place procedures to help pass verdicts on such cases within two days. And Ms Mahdere says some progress has been made by the government over the last few years in tackling violence against women. There is a newly established ministry of women's affairs; there was a push before the 2005 election to get more women into parliament and there has been a complete overhaul of the penal code to beef up laws to protect women. But in some rural areas, the traditional practice of abducting young girls and forcibly marrying them remains common - in one region it accounts for some 92% of all marriages, according to the most recent figures from 2003. Kamilat and her sister have now flown to Paris for medical treatment, which is being financed by businessman Sheikh Mohammed Al Amoudi. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» rave_dolphin replied on Wed Mar 28, 2007 @ 10:34am |
 Coolness: 87010 | sicko ... |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Wed Mar 28, 2007 @ 12:11pm |
 Coolness: 339785 | natural selection, someone needs to kill the guy who did that. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Wed Mar 28, 2007 @ 12:21pm |
 Coolness: 685710 | Uhmm, no, you've got natural selection backwards. Natural selection is the killing of the weaker that aren't able to survive. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Wed Mar 28, 2007 @ 1:17pm |
| Coolness: 339785 | depends on what the goal of natural selection is..
we can control the 'selection' process by removing bad seeds.. and someone who throws acid on some's face is a bad seed that needs to be removed. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Wed Mar 28, 2007 @ 1:21pm |
| Coolness: 685710 | One could argue that the people "removing" the "bad seed" are doing the same thing that the "bad seed" attempted to do, and that they themselves need a removal. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Wed Mar 28, 2007 @ 1:33pm |
| Coolness: 339785 | Originally Posted By SCREWHEAD
One could argue that the people "removing" the "bad seed" are doing the same thing that the "bad seed" attempted to do, and that they themselves need a removal. There's a difference between unprovoked attacks and defense. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Wed Mar 28, 2007 @ 1:53pm |
| Coolness: 685710 | What you're refering to is called artificial selection. Your "goal" is to make a person who is "moral", natural selection's goal is to make a person who is strong and will survive, irregardless of morals. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Deadfunk replied on Wed Mar 28, 2007 @ 2:18pm |
 Coolness: 153125 | natural selection means you sould both be removed! =P |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Wed Mar 28, 2007 @ 2:22pm |
| Coolness: 685710 | Technically, yes, I should have been back when I was 13. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Wed Mar 28, 2007 @ 2:31pm |
| Coolness: 339785 | Originally Posted By SCREWHEAD
What you're refering to is called artificial selection. Your "goal" is to make a person who is "moral", natural selection's goal is to make a person who is strong and will survive, irregardless of morals. Human survival depends on each persons ability to survive as part of society. We are stronger when operating together as a group versus going at it alone. When one strays from the norm of the group, he/she needs to be removed. Now, whether you want to kill this person, lock them away, or shun them, it doesn't matter since the end effect is the same. People who randomly throw acid on people are a weakness in the social group and bring down the overall strength. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» moondancer replied on Wed Mar 28, 2007 @ 2:32pm |
| Coolness: 92385 | I'm sorry but running around burning people with acid is the opposite of good survival skills in this day and age. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cvxn replied on Wed Mar 28, 2007 @ 3:25pm |
 Coolness: 178765 | I hope she'll be allright. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Wizdumb replied on Thu Mar 29, 2007 @ 1:31am |
 Coolness: 122430 | the new milenium heeds nothing new, humans never learn |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» rave_dolphin replied on Thu Mar 29, 2007 @ 10:35am |
| Coolness: 87010 | Human do learns ... but we're talking of an evolution that goes over 1000's of years so yeah ... from the day we're born to the day we die, there probably won't see major changes. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Wizdumb replied on Fri Mar 30, 2007 @ 3:18pm |
| Coolness: 122430 | dude in over 2000 years of recorded history and in a day in an age where information is more accessible than ever, it saddens me to see this shit still going on
there are still genocides happening to this day learning my ass |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» rave_dolphin replied on Fri Mar 30, 2007 @ 4:15pm |
| Coolness: 87010 | You can't expect humanity to change in a day ... evolution may be slow, but it's still there and constant. More than ever there is people understanding the need for a structured society and abide to it not by fear of the ruler, but by their own choice, because they feel it's right.
If you can't trust human kind, how can you trust yourself ? |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Fri Mar 30, 2007 @ 4:22pm |
| Coolness: 339785 | Originally Posted By BAAMUTH
You can't expect humanity to change in a day ... evolution may be slow, but it's still there and constant. More than ever there is people understanding the need for a structured society and abide to it not by fear of the ruler, but by their own choice, because they feel it's right. If you can't trust human kind, how can you trust yourself ? in a day? humans have been around for more than 200,000 years. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» rave_dolphin replied on Fri Mar 30, 2007 @ 4:29pm |
| Coolness: 87010 | And we have been evolving since that time ... when was the last time you've seen a guy kill someone in cold blood ? I mean ... seen it live, not on the TV ... I'm pretty sure if you'd asked this question 2000 years ago, almost everyone could have thought of one case or another, and there wasn't has many people around to do these shits.
There is still war, but most wars in industrialized countries are now waged economically, withouth loss of human lives. Isn't that an evolution to you ? Slowly but surely guys ... |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Wizdumb replied on Fri Mar 30, 2007 @ 4:31pm |
| Coolness: 122430 | i can trust myself because i KNOW the mistakes of the past and what to do and what not to do
humanity is another story for example look at the last 50 years, has anything improved since then? in the grand scheme of things, not a hell of a lot it's reasons like this that i dub myself a realistic pessimist and i haven't been fucked over yet unfortunately optimism doesn't get you much these days |
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