Malala yousafzai - modern hero

[P. G. Tipps]

No? Shame.

You seem confident in your predictions !!

Really?

How flattering of you ... !!

[Serial_Apologist]

I'm sure Malala Yousafzai like all young people (or at least most!) will mellow politically with further age and experience and realise that enforced and freedom-curtailing "solutions" are not the 'answer' after all.

I sincerely hope not!

[P. G. Tipps]

I sincerely hope not!

Yes, but you are the never-changing, ever-youthful Peter Pan of these boards, Serial_Apologist ..!!

[Richard Barrett]

I'm sure Malala Yousafzai like all young people (or at least most!) will mellow politically with further age and experience

I knew someone would say this. So: she's old enough to win a Nobel Peace Prize, but at the same time not old enough for her statements on politics to be credible, is that it? How does that work exactly?

[Frances_iom]

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I'm sure Malala Yousafzai like all young people (or at least most!) will mellow politically with further age and experience and realise that enforced and freedom-curtailing "solutions" are not the 'answer' after all.
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it will require more than her to rid the world of Islam - whose holy texts seem to condone just about every war crime known - the worst of them basically being paid for by the Saudis

[P. G. Tipps]

I knew someone would say this. So: she's old enough to win a Nobel Peace Prize, but at the same time not old enough for her statements on politics to be credible, is that it? How does that work exactly?

Well, apart from being very brave and intelligent and thoroughly deserving such a prestigious accolade, she is still very young and many of us learn that what we thought was a good idea in our youth does not necessarily appear to be such a good idea when we get older. Of course, that will not apply to everyone.

Admiration for young Malala need not include agreeing with everything she says just because she happens to be very brave and intelligent and has won the Nobel Peace Prize.

That is how it works for me ... I cannot speak for anyone else.

[kea]

I'm sure Malala Yousafzai like all young people (or at least most!) will mellow politically with further age and experience and realise that enforced and freedom-curtailing "solutions" are not the 'answer' after all.

Perhaps I am too young to understand this train of thought but I don't see what sort of freedom-curtailing solutions Ms Yousafzai is advocating? Apart from curtailing the freedom to bomb people with drones or to manage organisations in a hierarchical fashion, and those freedoms don't seem particularly worthwhile to me in the first place.

[jean]

That is how it works for me ... I cannot speak for anyone else.

I'm not sure you can even speak for yourself, since it may not be universally agreed that you are wiser now than you were in your youth.

[MrGongGong]

I'm not sure you can even speak for yourself, since it may not be universally agreed that you are wiser now than you were in your youth.

[vinteuil]

... or this (to the 32nd congress of Pakistani Marxists): I am convinced Socialism is the only answer and I urge all comrades to take this struggle to a victorious conclusion. Only this will free us from the chains of bigotry and exploitation.

However, as far as I'm aware, it wasn't Pakistani Marxists who saved her life, but dedicated doctors and nurses in a dirty rotten capitalist country!
I'm sure Malala Yousafzai like all young people (or at least most!) will mellow politically with further age and experience and realise that enforced and freedom-curtailing "solutions" are not the 'answer' after all.

... o come now, my right-on colleagues and friends. PG Tipps may be objected to often, but here he is referring to Marxism. It is not bonkers to consider that Marxism, so far, has indeed been an 'enforced and freedom-curtailing "solution"....'

There may be, in a future world, a Marxist 'solution' to the state of the world which is not enforced and freedom-curtailing; we have no experience of it yet.

I don't think I share PG Tipp's world view - but here he is not being silly.



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[MrGongGong]

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I don't think I share PG Tipp's world view - but here he is not being silly.

Maybe not "silly" but a bit of a sad old cynic IMV

[Serial_Apologist]

Maybe not "silly" but a bit of a sad old cynic IMV

I dunno about that MrGG - on the one hand the Tippster states Malala is naive to not realise that "enforced and freedom-curtailing 'solutions' are not the 'answer' after all", while receiving the Nobel Peace prize for, among other things, campaigning against women being debarred from education. As he himself so often argues, he can't have it both ways! If he were arguing against the use of religious doctrines for repressive purposes, and of Marxism also for purposes for which its founder never intended, then one might agree!

[P. G. Tipps]

Maybe not "silly" but a bit of a sad old cynic IMV

Any advance on 'a bit of a sad old cynic', anyone ... ?

Cantankerous Capitalist Cretin would be my humble contribution ...

[amateur51]

Any advance on 'a bit of a sad old cynic', anyone ... ?

Cantankerous Capitalist Cretin would be my humble contribution ...

scottycelt QED is mine

[P. G. Tipps]

I'm not sure you can even speak for yourself, since it may not be universally agreed that you are wiser now than you were in your youth.

Well unless I'm about to be hauled before the forum's Marxist-Feminist Central Committee for a mandatory ruling on the issue, I guess that I am still permitted to speak for myself and be free to declare that I think I might just be a teeny-weeny bit wiser than I was in my youth ... ?