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Pippa Bacca
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Reading this last night nearly brought me to tears.
Turkish PM Condemns Murder of Italian artist
Missing Italian artist Bacca found dead in Turkey
Essentially a female arist named Pippa Bacca stated she would walk from Milan to Israel wearing a brides dress for world peace and to illustrate that she could place her trust in the inherit kindness of people.
She went missing on March 31.
Her dead body was found amidst some bushes in Turkey last Friday.
This is a story of irony and disappointment. Why can't people be..not..barbarians? I'm ashamed to be human with stories like this floating around.
I've read some counter-arguments of people saying she was "stupid" and "naive" to do what she did, but I resent that. All she was trying to do was to tell the world what is possible.
World peace is achievable. Definitely not within our lifetime, and it will never be completely perfect. But it's out there, and there's no reason we can't start making baby-steps towards our cookie jar.
For everyone that's calling her naive, idiotic, stupid; was Martin Luther King naive, idiotic and stupid? He was assassinated for his attempts at overhauling our social system, inspiring the masses and uplifting every man, woman and child to an equal pedestal of importance.
For every time that you attach a negative connotation to people like this, you're making society take a step backwards.
I know it's probably natural to just pull the ol' "I TOLD YA SO", maybe show some grief and then move on. But every person that hears you say, "I TOLD YA SO", will come to be of that same state of mind and attach that same negative stigma to the story at hand, thus creating more people that don't even make an ATTEMPT at ratifying or continuing the work of the "naive" person in question.
I work in sales and I see it all the damn time.
See how people are so quick to give up? "Don't even bother" - the defeatist's statement.
I see myself in the camp of naive optimists with idealistic views and don't regret it even once, even with the doldrums of society pounding down on people like me and Pippa Bacca. The key thing here is that I'm trying, and you better believe that I bother.
Oh, I bother.
Turkish PM Condemns Murder of Italian artist
Missing Italian artist Bacca found dead in Turkey
Essentially a female arist named Pippa Bacca stated she would walk from Milan to Israel wearing a brides dress for world peace and to illustrate that she could place her trust in the inherit kindness of people.
She went missing on March 31.
Her dead body was found amidst some bushes in Turkey last Friday.
This is a story of irony and disappointment. Why can't people be..not..barbarians? I'm ashamed to be human with stories like this floating around.
I've read some counter-arguments of people saying she was "stupid" and "naive" to do what she did, but I resent that. All she was trying to do was to tell the world what is possible.
World peace is achievable. Definitely not within our lifetime, and it will never be completely perfect. But it's out there, and there's no reason we can't start making baby-steps towards our cookie jar.
For everyone that's calling her naive, idiotic, stupid; was Martin Luther King naive, idiotic and stupid? He was assassinated for his attempts at overhauling our social system, inspiring the masses and uplifting every man, woman and child to an equal pedestal of importance.
For every time that you attach a negative connotation to people like this, you're making society take a step backwards.
I know it's probably natural to just pull the ol' "I TOLD YA SO", maybe show some grief and then move on. But every person that hears you say, "I TOLD YA SO", will come to be of that same state of mind and attach that same negative stigma to the story at hand, thus creating more people that don't even make an ATTEMPT at ratifying or continuing the work of the "naive" person in question.
I work in sales and I see it all the damn time.
See how people are so quick to give up? "Don't even bother" - the defeatist's statement.
I see myself in the camp of naive optimists with idealistic views and don't regret it even once, even with the doldrums of society pounding down on people like me and Pippa Bacca. The key thing here is that I'm trying, and you better believe that I bother.
Oh, I bother.
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Or we excise it technologically...
Terrible thing though, I hope they find the person(s) responsible.
This right here is why I think she's naive. Look through history or even a single days newspaper and it's pretty clear that people are not inherently kind.
I'm sorry what?
I thought this was a terrible turn of events when I read this on DIGG, but it just seems to me that walking through the Middle East in a wedding dress is not coalescing with your environment much and essentially making a target of yourself.
Acts of kindness aren't news.
Confirmation bias.
But this part does not exist. The brain always tries to do the best. Its just really really bad at knowing what is best.
but they're listening to every word I say
A murder is always a tragedy, however, this woman's idea doesn't lift me up on eagle's wings nor does she remind me of genuine reformers like MLK.
Hm. Good question. If it is impossible for a person to actually complete her goal without being raped and kill then yes the global society lacks a basic level of compassion and humanity and has replaced it with an irreverence for the well being of others.
It doesn't matter if the news is biased against acts of kindness as all I need to show is that some people aren't kind and then kindness can't be an inherent trait.
Martin Luther was a guy involved in a little thing called the Reformation, Martin Luther King was a guy with a dream and a gift for speeches.
I really do not think she was as mind-bogglingly stupid as to use "inherently kind" to mean "no one on earth ever does bad things."
And it is a mistake for you to assume that is what the phrase means.
I don't see anyone other than Jinnigan mention Martin Luther in this thread, though.
So... unless Jin was making some other point, his correction was aimed at no one, and is nonsensical.
She fell afoul of a simple case of criminal behavior, which will be with us as long as there is sentient life in this universe.
She was not naive in her goal, but she was in the execution of her "statement".
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.