Seriously though, don’t do violence.

  • Notyou@sopuli.xyz
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    Violence gave us (the US) freedom from being a colony, freedom from slavery, workers rights, women’s rights…wait a minute.

    Why do we get told to not do violence again? Seems like we just need a little bit of organized violence and we can solve problems.

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      Because violence is a tragedy and in an ideal world there would be no need for it. However, fewer and fewer people these days can pretend we live in an ideal world.

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        I do think, ideally, we should be able to resolve disputes without violence. We don’t live in that world though. Mainly because people that have a lot power and resources worked to keep it that way. They actively work against progress.

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        Equivocation much? By your logic either idiots set the standards or it’s morally defensible to attack people who kill us slowly.

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          I do think it’s morally defensible for an oppressed group to direct violence toward their oppressors. It’s also a tragedy that it comes to that but tragedy and justice are not mutually exclusive. I also think only an idiot would accept the standards in which we are expected to live, therefore to demand satisfaction with such standards would be idiotic.

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            It doesn’t really sound like we disagree about anything. Pardon my earlier tone. I should have been mellower, or at least funnier.