US 'Terrorists' hate Iraqis

Reading this mornings news <--link--> I was shocked to see the results of a survey of American military troops (hereby known as terrorists) on their attitudes towards Iraqis. The survey claims that one tenth of these terrorists have mistreated Iraqi civilians at some point in their 'service' and that one third condone torture to protect the life a one of their fellow terrorists.

Now this survey is credible, it was conducted by the terrorists' own mental health advisory team. This seems to be a common tactic of terrorist organisations, such as the United States Military, claiming that they don't value the life of any 'other'; 'you're either with us or against us' the leader of these terrorists has been quoted as saying. Fear is a fundamental aspect of terrorist politics.

So what else did this survey uncover? Well, more than 50% of the terrorists would not report a fellow terrorist for unethical behavior. This is shocking because of the limited definition of ethics that the terrorists already hold. If the terrorist holds 50% of the ethical concepts that I hold as, in fact, being ethical, and more than 50% of these terrorists would not report an unethical act then I can rest assured that less than 25% of the acts that I would deem unethical (and most other people too, I would assume) are currently being reported.

I'd love to post more of the survey's findings but the damn terrorists have censored it. It seems that just letting a little of their insanity out of the box creates more fear than if we knew the depths of it. Exploring in the dark is always more fearful than in the daylight but lets hope that this small torchlight of information helps to uncover the breadth of the terrorists' psychoses.

The Ethics of Microsoft

Ethics and Microsoft in the same sentence seems almost oxymoronical no matter what Bill Gates does with his own money. But that's all about to change courtesy of the Mexican Government. That's right, the Mexican Government, that too sounds almost oxymoronical. But thanks to Mexico's new president, Felipe Calderon, the ethical situation of both Microsoft and Mexico are looking up.

In a bid to reduce the terrible crime situation in Mexico the Government is offering a weapons buy-back scheme. Instead of cash, however, the Government is offering Microsoft XBox's in exchange for weapons. The Government is also considering exchanging complete PC's for the more powerful larger weapons, no doubt running one of Microsoft's notorious operating systems.

But will this scheme actually reduce crime? In countries such as the USA, Brittan, and of course Australia it is often argued that video game use actually increases the rates of crime. Those first person shooter (FPS) games have a horrible reputation for promoting violence. You can commit acts in some of those games that many would never conceive of in reality.

It remains to be seen whether this new XBox exchange scheme will reduce any violence within Mexico; maybe it will get even worse! Let's hope that the introduction of violent video games into a society that could not afford to purchase them, in large numbers, previously does not fuel the already raging crime fire.