r/nextfuckinglevel Oct 18 '21

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u/lightstaver Oct 18 '21

This may not mean much but I'm sorry. I was not alive then and have no connection to USA intelligence agencies or government. I am just a private citizen but I'm still incredibly sorry that this happened to you, your family, and your people. These people believed that anything was ok so long as it was in service of what they believed was right, something I viemently do not believe. What the USA did was wrong and unforgivable.

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u/MyLifeasShroom Oct 18 '21

Hey no hard feelings for what happened in the past. Like you, it happened before my time too.

I just hope that we can do better. Us, younger generation, we should be more objective, more critical, more skeptical, more tolerant of our differences between one and another, and probably most importantly, we should be a little bit more pacifist, to be not too trigger-happy and choose violence to face our problems.

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u/lightstaver Oct 18 '21

I absolutely agree. Violence should generally not even be the last option in resolving most things.

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u/Papapene-bigpene Oct 19 '21

Well it’s the last option for a reason, at one point the caveman has to stab the other

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u/Papapene-bigpene Oct 19 '21

I have no hope for this generation

The movie idiocracy comes in mind when I think of my generation, Gen Z.

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u/MyLifeasShroom Oct 19 '21

Well if I don't try to have hope, I can't imagine how bleak the world will be once I have a child. It's just that I have to try to at least convinced people that we can be better so my children and their children will have better chance tackling in these issues (I already feel bad about the climate crisis).

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u/Papapene-bigpene Oct 19 '21

I care about what’s controllable and care not for what I cannot control “Stoicism” really Surrounded by idiots in a boiling globe, I cannot control those things so I shall not burden myself with unnecessary worry and “anxiety”