On being insensitive
On being insensitive
Rule number one - unless your job is to analyze military conflicts, keep your mouth shut.
Rule number two - if you think your opinion on a military conflict is the most logical/correct/backed up by facts, go jog outside.
Rule number three - unless bombs have been dropped over your head, unless you've lost your home and loved ones, unless you've been hiding in a bomb shelter, and if you've found yourself in the same room with people who have lived through it, don't talk about the military conflict.
That girl who asked our professor what she thought of the conflict, knowing that the woman was from there - just to satisfy her curiosity - that girl embodied everything I hate. Treating people as objects with certain characteristics is absolutely unacceptable. Just because I have straight hair doesn't mean I have an opinion on straight hair.
You never know how the lives of people involved in a military conflict were affected and the most insensitive thing you can do is try to satisfy your curiosity and start asking questions a person who may have lost his best friend there. Life is not politics, life is people, and people are not objects that can be categorized.
I still have this image in my head of this girl repeating: "But so much loss, it's just terrible what will happen to this country now." Some people are completely lacking some organ responsible for sensitivity.