Couple pay with their lives for embrace of progressive delusions
This is a "tragedy" in the original Greek dramatic understanding: people undone by their fatal flaw, based on pride.
Benny Johnson reports in the Daily Caller:
An American couple decided to bicycle around the world in an attempt to prove evil does not exist. They chose to bicycle through ISIS territory and ISIS killed them...In one post, Austin – who is a vegan – said he worked for the Department of Housing and Urban Development during Obama's presidency explained how he and his girlfriend were planning to bike around the world with hopes to meet "generous" and approachable people.He did acknowledge that biking makes one more "vulnerable." ...In another post, right before entering the ISIS hotbed recruiting grounds of Tajikistan, Austin waxed about how "evil" does not exist in the world. ..."I don't buy it. Evil is a make-believe concept we've invented to deal with the complexities of fellow humans holding values and beliefs and perspectives different than our own—it's easier to dismiss an opinion as abhorrent than strive to understand it. Badness exists, sure, but even that's quite rare. By and large, humans are kind. Self-interested sometimes, myopic sometimes, but kind. Generous and wonderful and kind. No greater revelation has come from our journey than this."
It is a lovely fantasy, to be sure.
It's the same mentality that attaches a bumper sticker reading,
"Mean people suck" to a Volvo.
It's the same mentality that attaches a bumper sticker reading,
"Mean people suck" to a Volvo.
Image from simplycycling.org via the Daily Caller.
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