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> This always makes me think how much the world has changed. Can you imagine travelling today to a foreign country ready to die for fighting oppression? I have
by elcapitan 11y ago
> This always makes me think how much the world has changed. Can you imagine travelling today to a foreign country ready to die for fighting oppression? I have never seen such kind of conviction in my life.
That's exactly what young people from all over the world think what they do when they travel to Syria and join ISIS.
- collyw 11y agoJoining ISIS seems like the opposite of fighting oppression.
- elcapitan 11y agoFighting for collectivism also seems like the opposite of fighting oppression, that's the nature of utopian and apocalyptic movements.
- Htsthbjig 11y agoFrom your point of view. From their point of view, they are fighting against a dictator(true) in order to create a regime most of the people there want(a theocracy). While doing so they oppress other people, like the communist did in the Spanish civil war.
- riffraff 11y agoOr put more simply, they fight for what they think is right, like volunteers did on both sides of the Spanish war.
- ArkyBeagle 11y agoThat's one of the most complicated situations that's ever been. I doubt anyone can at least admit they're just doing it to get bloody.