GreekIslandGirl wrote:I'm not in need of your googled dictionary definitions - you seem to be the one struggling with language.
No, clearly actual dictionary definitions of words are of little interest to you vs your own definitions made up to suit your agenda. It would indeed be hard to 'struggle with language' when you have no regard for how a dictionary defines a word vs how you choose to do so.
GreekIslandGirl wrote:Nor do I need to justify to you why I object to Turkey's occupation of Cyprus just so that you can find an excuse to exonerate Turkey or mitigate their evil actions. Turkey's invasion in 1974 is only the continuation of their evil which started long before you moved to Cyprus. As I also indicated, Turkey's evil actions do not stop with Cyprus.
No you do not have to do or not do anything other than by choice. You do not
have to relentlessly display here on this forum a hatred of all Turks and everything connected to Turkey. You choose to do it.
Anyway this 'subject' interests me and I am going to 'muse' about it further, regardless of our 'bipolar spats'. I chose to.
I saw the other day (indirectly, snippets via actually watching gogglebox) a BBC TV Program about the operation of the
Crown Prosecution Services. This particular episode recounted an event, where a young man driving a high powered porsche lost control of the vehicle, crossed into the lanes of on coming traffic and hit head on a car with a mother taking her young son to school. The young boy died as a result of the injuries he sustained in the crash, the mother and driver of the porsche survived. I felt for the mother as anyone would. The case went to court and the porsche driver was found guilty and was sentenced to 12 months community service and a 12 months driving ban. I felt that , even with the limited information I had, the sentence was incredibly light, given that an innocent boy lost his life as a result of the incident. However I literally
openly wept when the mother expressed her view that the sentence was 'fair' and that she did not want another persons life to be ruined by what was a 'momentary lapse' or for such ruin to be the legacy of her sons death and that she had meet with the porsche driver and that he was a young and good man who had made a mistake.
So what does this have to do with anything ? What point am I trying to make here, to get across ?
That someone can have a hatred for a person, an ethnicity, a nation because of wrongs committed by that person / ethnicity / nation, historic or ongoing is totally understandable. Yet this is, I believe, ultimately a matter of
choice not compulsion. In the context of the Cyprus problem specifically it seems to me that often those who were most directly victims of horrendous experiences of the many tragedies that have befallen Cypriots, they are often the very ones who
chose to refuse to let that turn into hatred of other ethnicities / nations. That they make this choice
because they were so directly personally affected not despite it, it seems to me at least.
Do I think I have even one ounce of the courage, nobility, strength and humanity that the mother I described above displayed and which display left me openly weeping ? No I do not think this. I do however
aspire to have an ounce or more of such. I do make a conscious effort to try and not give in to hatred. What is more I believe that if we are to find a better future for all Cypriots than that which we have managed to create to date, then we all or large numbers of us have to aspire to similar.
