Sorry folks. I've just realised that my reply to Dave the Gnome was sent anonymously. It was entirely unintentional, I assure you.

"See, it works both ways". Of course it does, that is what my posting was all about. Personally I look forward to the day when people the world over are valued as people. Not black or white or Jews or Christians or Catholics or Protestants or Muslims or gays or straights or travellers or whoever. Just people. Maybe that's a lot to ask, considering how many bigots the world has produced, but it has to be preferable to sitting back and watching the human race tear itself apart.

If we could just make people realise that beneath the huge variety of social cultures which characterise the human race, we are all the one species; that the human race laughs and cries and fucks and fights, and feels and expresses the same emotions the world over, then perhaps we could discover one simple truth. Namely, that if you hurt me, then I will feel the same pain - emotional and/or physical - that you would feel if I hurt you.

I would rather go down that road than the one which the nutters of the far right and extreme Islam are hell bent on pushing us into.