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(13-07-2023, 03:46 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: Yeah, solely based on his conduct, I think not. Based on your attitude to his conduct? Very likely.
One of the reasons I have acquired an antipathy to some South Africans is the way they first generationally ruined a nation and then fled with all their wealth and expertise to a safe haven, leaving their home country to fall apart. Had they done that quietly and respectfully, these few migrants that I know rather well, might have slotted in well to their new country, but instead this group set about transforming a community into a carbon copy of the one they had left. Complete with gated communities, unpleasant attitudes to our tangata whenua and tikanga, arrogant expectations, and not a little violence in thought and deed.
But maybe you had to be there. With luck most of that original lot have now died out. Regrettably, my suspicion of them has not.
In their case I think a little suspicion is a healthy thing.
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(14-07-2023, 08:26 AM)R2x1 Wrote: (13-07-2023, 07:28 PM)Lilith7 Wrote: In their case I think a little suspicion is a healthy thing.
Would a lot be even healthier?
Maybe so - although perhaps it should be kept to a little, so as to allow plenty left over for those people we love to criticise - politicians. I'd hate them to miss out.
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Laugh or cry.
It's not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. The hundred-times-refuted theory of "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it - Friedrich Nietzsche
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(14-07-2023, 10:04 PM)zqwerty Wrote: Laugh or cry.
Probably a good deal of both I imagine...
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