I can't decide if I'm being an ostrich about the world. I was looking at the headlines in The Scotsman - I get these mailed to me each morning, and I can click on the link to read the full article, if I want. :-/

Yesterday, there was a headline "Saddam in rage as trial hears torture claim - THE first witness to face Saddam Hussein in court told yesterday of the horrors committed under the former Iraqi dictator's rule, including the use of a meat grinder and torture."

Now, I could have clicked on that link and read all about the gory details, but you know - I just couldn't. :| I know that the things that went on were bloody awful. I know that 'humanity' isn't very humane, and that, at the drop of a hat it seems, we are prone to rushing out and committing as many atrocities as humanly possible within the shortest space of time. Both sides do it. And whoever wins, their atrocities get swept away under a whitewash of propaganda. The folk who lose - they are the bad guys who committed dreadful acts of torture and evil :>, and oh my! aren't we glad we stopped them on time - aren't we wonderful!

But - going back to my original point - I don't want to have to read the grisly details. I don't want to know what they did with the meat grinder. My imagination can supply enough details without any help from the press, thank you.

Does this make me part of the problem? Am I one of those Germans who turned a blind eye as they saw their Jewish neighbours being carted off to their doom?

You know - I might be. And that scares me even more. :|