"I will not give you the gift of hating you" - Antoine Leiris

Nov 20, 2015 4:12 PM

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Not sure if this has been posted on Imgur already, but either way, the more people who get see it, the better.

Please watch the entire BBC video; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ-1iA-56k0

That's my kind of answer. In the meantime, i want the army forces of my country to fuck them all to death.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

What a remarkable response to such a horrible tragedy.

10 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 4

☐ Not REKT ☑ REKT

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That gave me chills to read. Unreal. Good for him for being so amazing.

10 years ago | Likes 633 Dislikes 12

There's a recording of him reading it too which is really intense

10 years ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 1

You should hear him say it out loud.. Breaks your heart

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

They can't be bargained with. They can't be reasoned with. They don't feel pity, or remorse, or fear.

10 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 3

And they absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 4

I wish to hug this man.

10 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

Never underestimate the French. The beautiful poetic bastards!

10 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 1

They should be killed. Its not about hate. Its about eliminating these Jihadi shitheads completely, so that they won't kill people again.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

So that some other boy need not be raised without a mother... so that a kid may not get deprived of her mother's unconditional love again..

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I suddenly feel solely responsible for every moment I have felt anger

10 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 6

There are people better at life than I am.

10 years ago | Likes 396 Dislikes 11

If only we could make governments better than these people.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No, no, no, My friend, you misunderstand what it is to live. To live is to experience, understand, grow and, teach. You are always (1/2)

10 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

(2/2) growing as is he. He (above) wasn't the person you see before you before the experience he endured.

10 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

get the fuck out of here with that garbage response.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 11

how can you reply to a post like this with some immature cliche shit

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 4

I am feeling the full effect of your statement

10 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

Wish America acted like this after 9/11. Instead we passed the Patriot Act and became xenophobes..

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

I like this guy. He is a nice guy.

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 3

May their deeds become as the dust of history, and their names forgotten.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

When you experience true horror and grief, the only way to keep believing in this world is to love with courage.

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 4

I'll just add this to the list of things that can make a college student tear up in a room full of people

10 years ago | Likes 52 Dislikes 6

But why? Letting murderer continue to murder is not being good guy, it's weakness. What's wrong with hating dumb agressive idiots?

10 years ago | Likes 0 Dislikes 1

I'm not in a room of people, but as a college student, I teared up, and I still would have had there been people around. Confirmed.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

I'd like to see that list.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I am weak, I would hate them with every fiber of my being if they took my family from me.

10 years ago | Likes 357 Dislikes 16

Agreed. My family and I dont even get along well, but dont you dare take them from me. I have a darkness inside me I would hate to unleash.

10 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

I would, too. But I think it's largely because I do not believe there is an afterlife. When someone is gone, they are gone. FUCK that!

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

They've taken nothing from me and I can't let go of the hate I have. He watched his wife die and he is doing it. Fuck me and fuck Daesh.

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

You're not alone in feeling that.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

He probably would were it not for the fact that he knows what game they're playing. Clever guy. Amazing soul.

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

You are human - ever emotion in the book is what makes us human, just don't let the hatred consume you and numb you

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Same. Good for him, but I don't think I'm strong enough to think that way. That little boy has an amazing dad, though.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Same here. I would want nothing more than to tear them apart with my bare hands.

10 years ago | Likes 57 Dislikes 1

Good to know, i'm not the only one.

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I feel sick thinking about the things I would do to the killer of my family

10 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 1

"Holding onto anger is like drinking poison, and expecting the other person to die"

10 years ago | Likes 235 Dislikes 15

Well. Fuck.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Well. Fuck.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Very well said!

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

That is beautiful.

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

It's a fairly famous quote. To tired to look it up though.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.” I prefer this one (1/2)

10 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 2

because anger is ambiguous. (2/2)

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Jokes on you, the poison activates in the urine and I will now piss on them and they will die.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Like a general without a mission until the war starts again

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What if you, like, held onto anger but also shot them a whole bunch with a gun? I'm like 92.7% sure they would die.

10 years ago | Likes 34 Dislikes 1

Two in the chest. One in the head. Then you can be 99.9% sure.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

I prefer the "zipper" method.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

1. Have anger. 2. Simmer for 20 years. 3. Release anger on the one who hurt you. 4. Enjoy life -Inigo Montoya

10 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 2

Do you always begin conversations this way?

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

And will that stop you from feeling angry? You've still held onto the poison and now created more misery in the world.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

If I were pissed enough to kill someone & I killed them I'd probably feel a bit less angry, yeah. Mainly 'cause they can't hurt anyone else.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The best way to beat them is to show them the benefits to living a life outside of the one they have. Show them another way.

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 5

I'd rather we just turned them all to ashes. It's not possible to rehabilitate a culture.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

You don't need to, they know it's there. They don't care.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Is that Cera's dad

10 years ago | Likes 63 Dislikes 12

More like brother, though.... they look around the same age

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Thank you! I'm glad I'm not the only one. Every time I scroll past the thumbnail in my newsfeed I think it's Cera.

10 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

Be nice you guys Michael's mom just died.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

So the answer to terrorism is to ignore it happily and maybe it will go away?.. Oh France..

10 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 7

No. Not to ignore it. But to not let it change you from a good person into a hater.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Well if no one lashes out in anger and people refuse to be afraid, terrorism loses it's power. And bombing a group to bits isn't going to...

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 6

make it go away, it just puts an end to one group. If you want to stop terrorism, it's a lot more involved than that.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 5

Well it's better that the American method of "invade unrelated country"

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Only on a personnal level.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Yeah, tolerance is good and well. But we're still going to put bullets in the heads of the terrorists who did ths and those who planned it..

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

It's not tolerance. We don't tolerate their existence. Their mindset must and WILL end. Eventually. We just don't hate them. We pity them.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

These Cera photoshops are getting pretty good.

10 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 7

forgiveness still seems lame. Still love your fellow countryman, love ya kid, and bomb their backward little existence into bones and dust.

10 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 4

I'll forgive them at some point, but I will advocate killing them so they can't harm other innocents. God/Allah can sort them.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Plot twist: They don't care if you hate them, they just want to kill you.

10 years ago | Likes 38 Dislikes 10

Looks like they failed huh?

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 5

Bullshit, that's how terrorism WORKS, and the reason it exists. It creates hatred and terror. It's why it is effective at all.

10 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 4

Actually they do care, hate leads to bad decisions, like ostracizing innocent people, which is exactly what they want.

10 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 5

the top may care. the meat never does, they are completely indoctrinated.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I would rather see those responsible killed, their homes & meeting places burned down, and their organization dismantled.

10 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

Which only dismantles the organization, which doesn't really solve the issue at hand.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 3

I wouldn't mourn their deaths, they're homicidal maniacs. The trick here is they die "martyrs." Cut off one head and several more appear.1/2

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And they know it. They are baiting us. We need to wise up and find a way to steal their thunder while still kicking their asses. 2/2

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'll do some of the hating for them.

10 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 1

As will I.. Time to dust off the m-4

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

Figure of speech? Pretty sure m4s are military exclusive

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yep, as military vets we often used m-4s

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I can share that with you

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I don't agree with this kind of thing. I feel it's misguided. But I can't exactly go and tell a poor victim of such a thing to shut up.

10 years ago | Likes 35 Dislikes 17

Emotionally he's fighting back by taking back control over his own situation. Of course, in practice this alone won't stop terrorism.

10 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 3

The beauty of free will is, you don't have to. But good for him for finding a way to deal with it that doesn't involve harming others.

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

How on earth can it be misguided, would you prefer he hated every muslim

10 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 8

Curious, why do you believe it's misguided?

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 3

"...and don't call me 'Curious'"

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Okay, Shirley.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It's good not to hate others. However, is there a point at which we should harm a select few for the benefit of the many?

10 years ago | Likes 123 Dislikes 13

I'm perfectly happy to hate and kill those terrorists for him and his son, so that they don't have to live in that world anymore.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That's why we few choose to stand against the evils in the world. We will bear the guilt of the evil we return to them.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Kant, along with others, might agree with you. I do.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"Do you think it's alright to kill?" "Absolutely... sometimes you must." -Utu-Noranti Pralatong (Farscape)

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Perhaps, but with sorrow for having to cause harm, both to the select few, and the family of those few.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Do you see how this can justify anything?

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It is like putting down a rabid dog. No one hates a rabid dog for what it is. You just do it because you know what it can do to others.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yes. We use sophisticated technology to locate targets and hit them with a precision weapon. They spray bullet s at kids. They behead & ensl

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Depends on your goal. In this instance, I don't think harming anyone is going to improve this man's life or make him feel better.

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

Exactly. It's an issue of scope. The consequence of harming anyone at this point is prevention, not vengeance.

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I don't think hate should play into it. Just cut them out. Like a cancer. Like they aren't even human.

10 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 7

Nothing bad has ever come from that sort of thinking, right?

10 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 2

Not saying its good. I just think its the only solution.

10 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

Like....the final solution?

10 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 2

HA! No. I mean like no trial. Like the US did with anyone who was SS during WW2. If my family was sold as sex slaves I'd want nothing less

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This. This is the answer of a decent human being to terrorism. You sir, have my respect.

10 years ago | Likes 1795 Dislikes 42

I think you misspelled "incredible"

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I respectfully disagree. I would get armed heavily and kill terrorists. Even if it was in Syria or iraq or wherever.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

No, the answer from a decent human is to go hunt these POS down and kill them, before they do it again.

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 5

I just heard him read this on the radio and had to pull over from crying

10 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 2

I had to put my phone down for a bit. Still in tears

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Puffin: This reaction is preening egotism. 'Look how much better I am than you, with my lack of hate.' Bullshit. You SHOULD hate murderers.

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 9

That's the point, he is better than them, when you show you won't give in to what they want, and will be the bigger person, it stops working

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 2

Nope. They don't care. Dead or dhimmi are what they're going for. This guy's preening is for the West.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

As a dad, I cry for his little one. He will never know his mother. I pray for this man and his family. May her wife watch over them.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Haven't you heard the U.S.? The answer is obviously to invade as many foreign nations as it takes to piss even more people off

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

If my beloved wife and mother of my child was murdered, I would not have this reaction. I'm ashamed to say it, I guess, but I would hate.

10 years ago | Likes 238 Dislikes 8

Well that's just not very Christian of you!

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I'm not ashamed to say that I would hate and feel that the answer to terrorism is to make sure terrorists can't terrorize.

10 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 2

Consider this, forgiveness isn't for them. It's for you. When you allow hate you deny yourself peace of mind.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

You give your time and your mental/emotional energy to hate and that energy is better spent in more productive ways to enrich your life.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

You may not be able to control whether you feel hate; but, like all emotions you can choose to let it go and focus on something else.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Every time you make that choice it becomes more and more habituated, until hate is gone. You choose to diminish it with lack of attention.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

most would, most would become jaded and hollow and vengeful

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I like to think most truly wouldn't I honestly can't say how I would feel though

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Vengeance doesn't have to be hollow. You can find great joy in it

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

The passivity and grace in his words carries the strength of millions of hateful voices...chilling and heart-rending.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

This and bombing the shit out of them

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not just decent, but great. A decent human being would still feel incredible hate.

10 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 2

My sentiments exactly. This is not forgiveness, but it reminds me of "to err is human, to forgive divine".

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You gain nothing from hate

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Obviously. A decent human would still feel it though. A great and incredible person like above doesn't. Not sure why I'm being downvoted.

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Ya I feel you there, im not saying I don't have hate or anything either btw,was just saying that, and I didn't down vote you either but +1

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I would not hate them. I would just kill them.

10 years ago | Likes 44 Dislikes 3

I feel the better choice(though much more difficult) would be to isolate them. Give them the environment they want of just them, >

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

> their rules, and nobody else. I have no doubt that every single one will hate being there within a month, and either kill each other, >

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

> or die trying to escape, begging to be let back into the world.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This. This is the answer of a decent human being to terrorism: you end it. You sir, have my respect.

10 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 4

We need to all understand something simple about ISIS: they're mortal. They're not some massive evil creature that requires superheroes 1/?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

to defeat. Cut them, they bleed red. Shoot them, they die. They're vulnerable to the same things we are. 2/?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I have no fear of ISIS, and I have no hatred for them or the perversion of religion they follow. 3/?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

if ending it was easy terrorism as a concept wouldn't work. But the main thing sustaining it is the fear and paranoia. america has been 1/2

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

I didn't say it was easy. Fighting evil rarely is.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

slowly burning it up. Destroying parts of there very foundation every time to kill someone and hate someone. Do what needs to be done. 2/3

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

but don't expect satisfaction. To expect victory. They are not had by killing those people, but by living the lives they hate. §3/§

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

No, it isn't. They don't want to change your way of life, or make you scared, they aren't jealous of freedom. They just want you dead.

10 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 4

this. why do people don't get that terrorists don't give a fuck about us and our reaction to them? they just want us out of the way.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Without fear terrorism doesn't work.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Until people in the West stop believing this bullshit, they'll keep trying to fight them with ideas. They all need to die.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

So kill them all, and more will pop up in their place, indeed quite likely quite a few more precisely because you did exactly what the...

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

previous ones said you'd do.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ah, more well-received propaganda. They don't want to scare you. They want you dead. They want your family dead. They want everyone dead.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

Oh they don't want everyone dead, death is just a means to an end for them, that's kind of the thing to terrorism, death is used as a tool..

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

to get compliance and subjugation. The people who blew up Pan Am 109 by no means wanted everyone or even a lot of people dead, they just...

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

They don't care what you think. They don't want you scared. They don't want you to be Muslim. They don't care about anything but your death.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1