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Wed, 05/05/2010 - 07:20 — lord maxim denapare

i was walking in mid capetown last week when i saw a few kids beating one scrawnny boy up when asked why they doing it they told me that he was a witch and he must be beating up and i realised that although we are in a new era our kind are still feared why?????

fear

Thu, 05/27/2010 - 18:28 — Damon Leff

Prejudice against witches is motivated by fear, which in turn is motivated by centuries of deliberate propaganda, recycled mythology and modern urban legends concerning 'witchcraft'.

I do hope you did not just walk on?! The boy needed your immediate defense.

wotanwulf's picture

in all practicallity,

Sun, 05/09/2010 - 08:32 — wotanwulf

it has been said that violence hurts the attacker as much as the attackee. practice taught me that pacifism tends to hurt the attackee more than the attacker.

Sad enough, if you turn the other cheek, you end up with two blue eyes instead of one.
We must remember that some folks just do not understand reason and fairness.

FF

Charles's picture

I hope...

Fri, 05/07/2010 - 08:03 — Charles

that you had the courage of your convictions and defended the victim?

Sometimes we actually DO need to get our hands dirty - and our knuckles bruised - in order to defend and uphold that which we hold dearest... Reasoning and dialogue only works when both parties are willing participants - in all other cases, brute force is needed.

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A bit of both

Wed, 05/05/2010 - 20:08 — Morgause

Folk normally fear what they do not know/understand. People also fall back on the old habit of finding scapegoats and using smokescreens behind which to hide their own shortcomings and misdemeanours. I believe that the case you observed is a mixture of both.

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