arcblade ([info]arcblade) wrote,
@ 2009-06-21 03:36:00
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Current mood: sad
Current music:Mosane - E.S. Posthumus- Cartographer
Entry tags:thinking too much

Caution: not for the faint of heart.

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=200249100507&ref=nf

For those that don't want to watch/didn't understand what they saw: This is a video of a girl watching the protest in Iran with her father. A basij member on the roof of a civilian house shot her directly in the heart. There was a doctor onhand, so he tried to save her, but there was no chance she could be saved from something like that. She died in less than two minutes, despite all the desperate hands that tried to stem her blood.


I've studied Psychology for awhile now. When things like this happen, I always ask why. Why would people be in this situation at all? Why would someone shoot an innocent girl in the heart? I keep thinking back to something in Theories of Personality... "Misery and Stupidity"- the causes of mental illnesses, according to one theorist. But really, it's fear and stupidity that cause things like this. And fear and stupidity are often so inexorably linked in humans.




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[info]anna_desu
2009-06-21 06:54 pm UTC (link)
I saw that one earlier =( It's not just fear and stupidty, I'm afriad. It's also high amounts of tention, and the ever present "I'm right, you're wrong" way of thinking. She wasn't doing anything, she certainly didn't deserve to be shot, but the streets there are not a safe place at the moment. My old roommate lives in Iran right now, and lets just say... the mass media has only chipped the tip of the ice on this one. Once the whole story comes out, I'm not sure what will happen.

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[info]arcblade
2009-06-22 01:39 am UTC (link)
Boil down the tension. What do you get? I'm of the opinion that it comes down to fear. Afraid of what might happen, of the unknown, perhaps. And, well, the "I'm right, you're wrong" sort of thinking is stupidity to me. ;)

I think that nameless girl will be a martyr. To what cause, I'm not sure, though.

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[info]anna_desu
2009-06-22 12:23 pm UTC (link)
I guess we define "tension" as different things. XD I think of it as an atmosphere surrounding someone, which then effects the person. Fear is, to me, is its own seperate party.

Of course, I can't pretend to know how the people of that country are feeling. The only info we're getting is from youtube and twitter, at the moment.

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[info]arcblade
2009-06-22 02:41 pm UTC (link)
It is all speculation, to be sure. I just hope things will be okay. :/

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