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Originally Posted by kirklancaster

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-asia-30491113

Terrorists kill over 126 mainly schoolchildren in Peshwar attack.
Key Points

Officials say at least 126 people, mostly children, have been killed in a Taliban attack on an army-run school in north-west Pakistan

Pakistan's security forces are struggling to regain control of a school amid reports children are being held hostage inside

Some pupils, who escaped, said the gunmen went from classroom to classroom, shooting children indiscriminately

The Taliban say the assault is in response to army operations in North Waziristan and the Khyber area. All times GMT.

HOW CAN ANY OF YOU STILL MAINTAIN THAT THESE BASTARDS ARE HUMAN AND SHOULD BE TREATED AS SUCH??????????????????????????

Surely this shouldn't matter to you Kirk? Pakistan is a Muslim country and therefore it's citizens are ticking time bombs of savagery just waiting to blow. Better that these children are killed now, surely, than they be given the chance to become monsters? It is after all, inevitable. You told me so when I asked about the case of adoption, only a day or two ago. It's in their genes, isn't it?

Of course that could have been xenophobic nonsense I suppose. Just a thought.

To answer your question: all it takes to consider these people human is to accept the truth that humans are ****ing horrible creatures. Of course they are human. Being horrendous humans doesn't somehow alter their species. Is a vicious dog who mauls a baby suddenly "not a dog"?

I have no real objection to how they're treated after carrying out these attacks or if they're caught red handed in the process of putting such a plan into action. Do What you want with them. My only problem with what you've had to say is the suggestion that all people of certain genetic backgrounds are "terrorists waiting to happen" and are somehow literally "different" to us "normal humans". And I suspect this is part of what you mean when you wonder "how can we consider them to be human".