You think that any Danish civilians who get murdered by terrorists had it coming? Really?
(rambling a bit here)
No, it's of course
sad that people were more or less indiscriminately killed. My connection isn't an ethical one of individual responsibility, it was more to note that Danish actions, at large, have consequences. "Deserve" was perhaps a wrong word, but killings of a lot of people is never a safety guarantee for your affliated group, be that a nation at large or a minority within that nation. (Similarly, supporting killings of a lot of people that other people do is not a safety guarantee either, there's a reason this guy went for Danish Jews.)
Of course the current dead did not
deserve their death, it
is a tragedy, but neither do the massive happenstance civilian casualties of Western initiative, which Denmark currently supports. There is a sort of karma by affliation present in us finally experiencing
some form of domestic travesty, even if it's hilariously minor (the body count is
2, for crying out loud, compare to any Western war in the Middle East, or, say, Breivik). This is not fair karma, it's just the way things are. And life in Denmark is
extremely comfortable, after this minor incident people are extremely agitated, and the newspapers freak out, but people still live comfortably, nothing has changed.
And the political winds in Denmark are unpragmatic and sometimes stupid about these issues. For example, if you don't like Islam, by condemning its practitioners to cellar-based mosques rather than have it build proper institutions, you are actively disenfranchising a growing segment of population, hiding the culture and its communications from the public and allowing it to grow reciprocal hatred towards your institutions in the underground. The numerous Danes that despise and try to prevent the construction of proper mosques endanger all of us. And the often proposed solution, simply to send people away because of race or religious affliation, is not a very humanist solution.
No, the dead as individuals did not deserve to die. Individual responsibility in national affairs is too complicated for me to decide on. But Danes live luxurious lives and rarely realize that
they are at war.
They may get hurt.
They may perhaps choose to do something about that.
Yes, as a polity, hopefully Denmark will realize that this is perhaps a retaliation in face of some recent decisions, both internally and externally. But I don't expect us to adapt properly. Rather, the Danish People's Party and its assortment of racists will grow stronger. Same with the radical Muslim underground.
That people freak out
so much over such a small incident, even if it's
sad, just leaves a bad taste in my mouth when those same people go on day by day, indifferently passive, as Denmark as a polity soils the Earth with blood and racism - both internally and externally. Perhaps people now, finally, realize that they are really able to die, and that the threat doesn't go away just because the Soviet threat imploded. For there is a difference between Danish foreign policy before and after the Russian decline. During the Korean war, we sent a hospital ship. Now, when we have no nearby threats, kissing US' butt seems danger free. I
hope part of the reaction is to properly figure out what to do with our Muslim population rather than dehumanization, but I don't expect this to happen, and I think we will suffer more because of it.
