Hondero
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Thanks guys, Madrid is a big city and is dificcult to be caught in these bloody events, but it has been horrible. In these occasions, after the tragedy, one can not avoid to think about terrorism in general.
I am a slinger, I practise competition pistol shooting and like the weapons in general, so I cannot say that somehow do not like the war. But arrived at that point in which a conflict becomes inevitable by other means, I like the noble war, the war between men of arms. But I do not like the cowardice that hides to kill, to assassinate innocent people not prepared for the war and that has nothing to do with the conflict. There is nothing noble nor epic in that sort of war.
Modern technology has made possible that a small group of people can cause great massacres in all a population. Anyone can leave a knapsack or a suitcase loaded of explosives with timer in a hospital or a school or a railway station and destroy in a moment hundreds or thousands of people. It is impossible to avoid this without suppressing to absurd limits the liberties of a society. But what honor there is in it? Anyone can burn a forest, or sacrifice uselessly a whole cattle ranch or kill students, housewives and workers who take a railroad from neighborhoods to go to their destinations and to claim with it that they are fighting by a political idea, but there is no ethical nor rational justification in destroying innocent beings that nothing have to do with the subject.
This it is the problem of this century: the terrorism potentiated by the technology and the liberties in the modern democratical societies. Many countries undergo their consequences today. Any idea can be defended politically, but what not can be done is to compare the political fight with the murder of innocents, because then no longer we are speaking of politics, not even of fight. We are just speaking of dangerous madness.
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