Sunday, June 29, 2014

Shooting the message using the messenger -2

What I have been seeing here is a very strong effort and inclination to lose focus on the issue using even what was intended to bring focus on the issue for the purpose of losing that focus and treating the victims as a secondary thing used for the purpose of other things.

Of course one can always test the self by assuming the position of victims. But here is a look from another angle to check the seriousness of reactions here toward this issue. Imagine that you are running a business and someone showed you that you have been paying significant costs for a long time for no reason. What would your reaction be? The real reaction would not be just partying on the good news but it would also be accompanied by feeling toward what was lost that may have as strong if not stronger effect on you than  your feeling toward what is coming. Do you see a similar balance here? Remember that this example is about money not human life. Also remember that the example imply a loss associated only with the past not a continuous one like the issue here.

But if you think about it, my claim about the absence of serious and real reaction toward this issue fits with what I have probably stated or hinted at earlier that this issue is taken as a game in this nation. The second amendment excuse and other arguments are simply rationalizations for this psychological game here. 

Nevertheless, although I need to resist that,I have a strong desire to put off talking about that later thing or even discussing gun laws and the effect of guns and respond to opposing claims in that regard despite that I think I can make strong cases until the correct interpretation for the second amendment applied. Why? Because I think that fair and square the correct interpretation for the second amendment would lead to that it stopped supporting a gun ownership right since a long time ago regardless of any other thing. Using the other argument would make me feel as if one is obligated to recover a debt to himself that is very insignificant to a billionaire carrying it by showing a financial hardship he is suffering to that billionaire despite his right to recover that debt regardless of his financial situation.            

Saturday, June 28, 2014

Shooting the message using the messenger

This is not shooting the messenger. In fact it is the opposite of it in tactic. Yet, it could serve the same purpose even better. I did not start talking about the ultimate encroachment on victim rights here in order to be used myself as a device for diverting attention from the victims and do not accept being used in that way. 

Concentration on the messenger could be a very effective way to circumvent adopting or even just listening to the message
Real listening to the message here should pass through focusing on the victims and the encroachment on their rights first. I do not accept anything that comes through treating what is equal to me as a secondary thing and do not accept invitations to such cannibalistic party. Otherwise why am I talking about this subject? To defeat my own purpose?

This post here is far from being based on mere speculations. I have what construct a more clear and coherent picture for supporting what I am complaining about here than the opposite view. I have seen very few , if any, reactions to the main issue, from both sides, that clearly conveyed to me a serious level of attention and not a game playing motivated by a psychological complex/wish.