"Humane" behaviour Part I

Over the years, especially in modern times, there has been a growing trend of what they call humane behaviour. This kind of behaviour is associated with compassion, kindness and mercy towards others. The development of humane behaviour has been quite puzzling to a certain extent. This is because the process of "doing good" as some would call it, many at times involves inflicting pain at others. The distictive thing about this is that there is an attempt to classify people as polar opposites or one group of people as the exremist type. Once classified as an extremist one "loses" the privileges granted to humanity. The process of clasification isn't the same as a fair trial before a jury or judge. But a "kangaroo" court kind of decision making will suffice. Those who practice this "humane" behaviour hide behind the justice and responsibility to "protect" thing. In America liberals and conservatives have converged to this kind of thinking in the way they handle their foreign policy.

For example, if we look at Iraq, while they accused Saddam Hussein of attrocities against his own people and also of him being a threat to world peace and stability by falsely accusing him of possessing weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), they the Americans and their allies where out at all stops to have Saddam eliminated (killed). In the process of doing so, many innocent civillians were killed and mained. There hasn't been much remorse by the Americans and the "casualties" have been viewed as collateral damage to achieve "greater good". That's precisely what I'm saying is being done by this "humane" brigade. The same thing has happened to Gadaffi and is now happening to al-Assad of Syria.