Headlines from 2020

Slate: “Non-violence is an important tool for protests, but so is violence.”

That’s true, actually, but it does elide the moral question.

5 comments:

  1. It says something about the current times that I was completely unsurprised to see that headline.

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  2. ymarsakar5:23 AM

    Yes, it is. Violence is a tool. Bad guys can use it. Anti bad can use it too.

    A classic Target Focus Training teaching.

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  3. Asking moral questions risks getting moral answers.

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  4. I'd say the folks at Slate are enamored of violence right up to the point where it might affect them personally for a nanosecond. "But we're on YOUR SIDE!"

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  5. "Yes, it is. Violence is a tool"
    you ignored the "for protests" part. Not that it can't be, but then are they simply protests?

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