Maybe this makes me the asshole, but I'm kind of amused that despite all the bellyaching, you just can't resist playing into Houseman's little game. Are y'all masochists?
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... Just why guys? How does giving him exactly what he wants benefit you in any way shape or form?
I get the horrible idea you think you are being clever here.
Unless you forget, Kyle Rittenhouse voluntarily took a gun to a place he never needed to be, prepared to use lethal force as he saw fit. He duly shot three people, two of them fatally. Unfortunately for you, what it does is prove my point about hypocrisy and vacuity that you have sanctimoniously lectured other people about "grave-dancing", and then promptly supplied an apology for a killer.
Ah, the "I was being ironic" defence to making mistakes. Learnt something from Trump, evidently.
A lot of people on these forums only care about people so long as they go along with their ideology and once they don't they "are clearly evil and must be destroyed for the good of their ideology."
So much wasted time spent by people preaching about the evils and stubbornness of religion only for people to replace it with political ideologies.
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Words matter = Kyle's words condemn him = Grave-dancing condemns those who do it.
Or
Words don't matter = Grave-dancing is fine = Kyle's words don't condemn him.
Your choice.
The sort of sophistry hailed as clever by people who think they are. Seriously, are you trolling or trying to provoke Aristotle into rising from the grave and murdering you for butchering his logic?
I'd say words matter, but acts matter more than words.
So the words of someone who said they want to shoot someone AND shot someone have considerably more weight than, let's say, someone wishing death on people who can't be arsed to not spread a virus that produces more dead.
In other words, only a hack would try to put an equality sign between the two.
So the words of someone who said they want to shoot someone AND shot someone have considerably more weight than, let's say, someone wishing death on people who can't be arsed to not spread a virus that produces more dead.
In other words, only a hack would try to put an equality sign between the two.
In all seriousness, I agree.
The only problem is, we're viewing this retroactively. Kyle has already killed someone, and we're looking back at his words, with the benefit of hindsight, and saying "oh that makes so much sense! The warning signs were there all along!"
So my question is, when someone expresses a callous disregard for human life, is that a red flag? Or does it only BECOME a red flag in hindsight, once someone does something?
What if your ideology includes caring about people.
If you have these people who don't care about people, people who do harm to others, people who violate every reasonable precept of an ideology of care towards other people, then do you not feel some obligation to regard those people as evil?
if not, then I don't think you can reasonably pretend that you care about people. What you care about the moral right of people to act in ways which harm others, which you've mistaken (or, let's be real, deliberately and deceptively misrepresented) as care for people. It's not, it's kind of the opposite.
You don't get to try and shame people for having moral convictions on the grounds that having any convictions is immoral. That is actually hypocrisy.,
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Dude advises people to poke bear, dude pokes bear, and dude is mauled by bear, it's really not that complicated.
But I guess I'm a broken person for not appreciating the moral gravitas of cheesy action movies.
There's discussion to be had about mass shooters, and how so many of them displayed red flags, also on social media, that were then ignored. But it's the discussion the lawmakers and social media moderation should have.
Well, in case of a shooter, those red flags would often signal a desire to use a firearm.
But in case of someone wishing covid death to conscious spreaders? What'd it be? Bioterrorism?
Super weird how this keeps happening
Yeah yeah, pregnant spouse, tragic lose of life, whatever. We're on year two of this shit and the dude organized a bear-poking rally and treated himself with a toxic anti-parasitic to fight a virus. The fuck did he expect would happen?
Yeah yeah, pregnant spouse, tragic lose of life, whatever. We're on year two of this shit and the dude organized a bear-poking rally and treated himself with a toxic anti-parasitic to fight a virus. The fuck did he expect would happen?
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Perhaps it could be a red flag that the person might become a radical vigilante?
It doesn't mean that a person will act on it, of course, but I'm not sure I'd want to be their roommate.
Thank you for being a reasonable person and at least entertaining the premise.