Quote from Rearden Metal:
OK, you're thinking: "What a dumbass kid! He could have simply gotten up as commanded, and avoided all that pain." But it's not that simple. The kid's name is Mostafa Tabatabainejad.
Hasn't anyone absorbed the concept I've been trying to explain here for years? For the tenth time, Middle Easterners put <b>Honor & Pride</b> above everything else. Personal, Family and Tribal Honor, in that order. Money, possessions, health, friendships, comfort, blood...even human life are all secondary, relatively unimportant values.
Assuming the kid was raised with Middle Eastern values, and isn't bright enough to think for himself (a routine failure of MOST homo sapiens), he <b>naturally</b> would have chosen physical pain over the public <b>dishonor</b> of obeying commands like a whipped dog.
If America wants to win wars in the Middle East, Americans might first want to learn how those people think, no?
If they want to live here, they might want to learn how we think, no? Fuck him and his Middle Eastern values. This ain't the Middle East! Futhermore, learning how Muslims thinks won't win wars. Inflicting max pain will. It's a universal language. Act like a dog, get whipped like a dog, although I don't condone the abuse of animals, especially the four legged kind. Two legged? More often than not they deserve the ass kicking the cops give em'.