From: ibshambat@gmail.com   
      
   When people do not appreciate what they have, the correct solution is to bring   
   to their attention the situation of people who have it worse than they do.   
      
   The Chinese people could only dream of having a government like the American.   
   The Americans already have it and keep attacking it. The American government   
   could only dream of having a population like the Chinese. The Chinese   
   government already has it and    
   treats it like dirt.   
      
   Muslim women could only dream of having men like the Americans. American   
   feminists already have them and insist on being ugly to them. American liberal   
   men could only dream of having women like the Muslim. Muslim men already have   
   them and treat them in    
   terrible ways.   
      
   I had a friend from Russia whose wife told him that there were no real men   
   left in either Russia or America. I told him to tell her to check out the   
   scene in Afghanistan. Ingratitude is a real problem. I used to be an   
   ungrateful brat myself, but I’ve    
   learned better. In all the cases above we see ingratitude; and the people who   
   practice it need to have brought into perspective the situation of those who   
   have it worse than do they.   
      
   Of course we see the guilty party using the behavior by the other side to make   
   its case more convincing. Americans use misconduct by Chinese government to   
   attack government, and Chinese government uses misconduct by private American   
   citizens and    
   corporations to push the case for greater government control. Feminists use   
   behavior by Muslim men to claim that men are pigs, and Muslim men use behavior   
   by American feminists to claim that women are evil and should be battered. In   
   neither case is the    
   guilty party in the position to confront the behavior by the other guilty   
   party. Instead they take it out on the better party. And that teaches everyone   
   the worst possible behavior, in which terrible people are being rewarded and   
   better people are being    
   abused.   
      
   A Muslim man who thinks that women are bad needs to deal with women who are   
   actually bad before he has appreciation for what he has in his country. A   
   feminist woman who thinks that men are pigs needs to deal with men who are   
   actual pigs before she has    
   appreciation for what she has in America. Same is the case with both   
   governments and populations in America and China.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)