South Park creators given signed photo of Saddam Hussein

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Because for anything to exist - so must its opposite. Just as there can be no such thing as Up without a thing known as Down, there can be no 'good' without 'evil.' Murderers must exist so that people who don't murder can also exist.

And you lose me here. Murderers exist. People who don't murder exist. I do not believe one gives rise to the other, nor do I believe they are cosmically linked by any sort of yin-yang requirement of the world. They are independent, rising from simple statistics.

Both are "bad" in my value system. Both are necessary for their opposites to even exist. Since I am pleased to be a person who (I hope) would not seek to torture or humiliate prisoners under my watch, in some sense I am thankful for those that do. They fill a necessary niche in the world. And I am free to be their opposite.

Which is based on a belief in something for which I have no evidence and therefore cannot agree with.

As with Alex, I have no sympathy for Saddam in the situation, nor do I consider the act particularly heinous on a relative scale. And, were Matt and Trey to have thought of it and put it in an episode of South Park as a theoretical situation, I would have laughed at it. But faced with the reality of an individual who chooses to act like that, I don't find it amusing, I find it cowardly and pathetic.

If one of those soldiers happened to be sitting next to me in a bar and told me how he'd sat and laughed at Saddam while showing him the movie just to rub it in Saddam's face, I would have thought, "Wow, this guy is a fvking prick, I want nothing to do with him."