[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

Common sense? Logic? Take your pick.

It's hypocritical to believe otherwise. You can't pick and choose who gets their basic human rights and then say that you believe in Human Rights. It's all or nothing and that's all there is to it.

I think the key to this issue is in the descriptor - 'Human'.

By all accepted definitions of what makes us human - Intellect, Emotion, Spirituality, Morality, Compassion , Sociality - there is a definitive point at which a sentient being cannot be classified as 'Human' no matter how much that being anatomically or physiologically resembles a human.

As Creggle said earlier, the potential for what we regard as 'Evil' co-exists with the potential for 'Good' within all of us, but genuinely 'pure' Evil is a totally different entity which does not reside in the normal human, but is nonetheless something which has a very real existence.

Prisons all over the world confine monsters who by the very nature of their purely evil crimes cannot be classified as 'human'. Some of these include child killers who carried out the most inexplicable atrocities on their little victims prior to killing them. Yet, to compound their evil, these monsters smirk into the faces of the distraught parents of the victims and refuse, when begged by them, to reveal the whereabouts of their children's bodies so that they can be 'retrieved' and given a proper burial.

Are these purely evil bastards 'Human'?

On a grander scale, World history is littered with examples of genuinely pure Evil - from the Nazis to Pol Pot.

There can be no doubt that Hitler was a purely evil demon. But what of those who served him?

In one 'Death Factory' a young Jewish mother - guessing her imminent fate - desperately attempted to hide her baby beneath a pile of clothing. A young Nazi guard spotted her attempt and bayoneted the baby countless times - in front of the distraught mother - through the discarded clothing.

Was this purely evil bastard 'Human'?

Despite the fact that there are certain apologists who would answer: "Yes" to my questions, the answer is an irrefutable 'NO'.

An Islamic Fundamentalist plot to conquer the world by force is evil. The atrocities carried out by those Islamic Fundamentalists whose 'raison d'etre' is to realise the success of that plot, is pure evil and they, therefore, cannot ever be classified as 'Human' by any sane, rational person.

There is no word other than 'evil' to describe the cold blooded, calculated beheading of terrified innocent human beings. But - as in the aforementioned case of the serial killers who delight in refusing to reveal to the grief-stricken, pleading families of their little victims the whereabouts of their children's remains - it is the complete and utter pleasure which these bastards derive from such evil acts which compounds that evil and defines these 'Jihadist' monsters as purely evil 'non-humans'.

There can be no doubts. Pure evil exists. It exists in sentient beings who - whilst resembling humans - are irrefutably inhuman, not human, alien.

They do not qualify to be classified as 'Human' nor to be afforded the same considerations as 'Humans' - they are inhuman, sub-human, not human.

I contend, therefore that we recognise this distinction, accept it, and stop all thoughts or propositions that we treat these non human demons as human, and stop affording to them the same ‘Human Rights’ afforded to genuine humans.

They are not Human they are inhuman demons.