BirKibrisli wrote:Bananiot wrote:Birkibrisli, you keep talking about empathy and compassion. You have done this since day one you started writing here. Yet, few people understand what you are saying. The rest have their ears hermetically shut to your calls. I believe this is because they can not get themselves to appreciate that there are Turkish Cypriots who are human after all. They want Turks to be monsters so that they can fuel their misanthropist hatred to anything Turkish. Anything else will disturb their stereotype view which has been ingrained into their genes and of course will turn their world upside down. So please, show some compassion for these baggers too for they cannot help it.
I think the best representative of these people is Piratis himself, who declined to meet Erol, some time ago, because as he said, after meeting him, he might get to like him and this would make it difficult for him to shoot him, if it came to war!
Yet, you might just as well forget my first paragraph in which I tried to psychoanalyse the diehards. May be, the phenomenon is not as complicated as we make it to be. It could be down to plain stupidity.
No,I don't think it is plain stupidity,Bananiot...I am coming to the conclusion that they are mentally ill...They have been terribly brainwashed to believe their side is 100% right...They are in denial,and they will not allow themselves to feel any empathy or compassion,as that would entail accepting that the other side is human as well...Their fragile mental state dictates that they maintain the rage and the hatred,without which their lives would have no meaning or purpose...They should get professional help,but they never will because they do not believe there is anything the matter with them...Truly crazed people think they are perfectly normal,everybody else is mad...These are truly crazy people...And they are dangerous...Mostly to themselves...
I never said that our side is "100%" right, and on tons of occasions I recognized your suffering. But you keep ignoring this and the reason you do it is obvious: You can not argue against what I say so you instead try to create some imaginary Piratis, and defeat the "arguments" of this imaginary Piratis. It is called the Strawman fallacy:
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/straw-man.html
On the other hand you believe that GCs should "pay the price" for everything that happened in the past while TCs to be rewarded with more powers, privileges and land as a reward for their suffering.
Doesn't this show that you believe that your side is the one which is 100% right and you are in denial about the harm you have caused to us? Surely if you had accepted even part of your own responsibility then you wouldn't have the position that a solution to the Cyprus Problem means the punishment of GCs and the reward of TCs.