"The time has come to start forcing people to care and act"
This line immediately made me want to put down the book. It just makes me wonder if I am being forced to care and act, and it makes me really want to stop all of my action in Darfur. In a democracy, nobody should be "forced" to care or act on something. now there are exceptions to this but, this is a political/humanitarian issue and opinions shouldn't be forced onto others, just presented, to allow the reader to decide. Its even worse then saying I'm right and all other opinions are wrong. Its saying that I think something should be done and we should force others to care and to act. I was already on the fringes with this book but this was the straw that broke the camels back. Honestly, if the Darfur thing wasn't a school assignment I would probably cease any action i had in helping Darfur (which would already be slim to none) and I would most likely abstain to most activism. I would still hope for a resolution to the issue, but I would not be part of the solution.
I might be blowing it out of proportion but it really hit me hard deep down and it will always stick out in my mind when I think about this book or Darfur.
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I agree with you on this one. I think that this does hit close to what we are being forced to do in school with project inaction. I know that helping Darfur is a good thing to do but I don't like it when people will force you to do something. We're free to do what we want politically and no one should force us to do otherwise. Personally the Save Darfur movement reminds me alot of the global warming movement. The arguments are purely emotional and not driven by what we can actually do. After Inconvenient Truth came out we were pressuring for a quick solution to the problem and now it turns out that the science is not so certain after all. If we want to do anything in Darfur we have to think things over and discuss what we can and cannot do.
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