Seriously though, don’t do violence.

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    murder is in general bad, fed-posting is inadvisable

    also there’s a broader boring argument about the dangers of violence being normalized as means of political change, but those arguments are boring

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      1 month ago

      Self-defense (or defense of others) is not murder.

      Brian Thompson killed thousands, and contributed to the suffering of millions more. The judicial system was both unwilling and unable to stop him.

      What choice was there? What alternative to stop him?

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        1 month ago

        I didn’t make any arguements about this specific situation? Murder in general is bad

        The problem is that there’s no clear endpoint of that thought process. The number of people that exact thought process applies to would require a level of violence that I doubt anybody sane wants.

        Edit: to be more precise here. I’m leery about trying to apply the logic of individual self-defense to broader questions about social murder. The entire system is complicit, but if we go to burn the system down without a replacement ready we’ll end up sorrounded by nothing but ash and corpses

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          You’ve been propagandized to hell. Both in defense of systemic violence, and the belief that these systems would cease to exist without a financial class to absorb profit from them.

          You need to wake the fuck up.