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Safe to assume that this is a truly civilized debate?
The laughing wink emoji of a man born into wealth and never had to make the decision about how much of their last $20 bill they could afford to spend on gas and how much to spend on food to get them to next payday.
These people are like the crap you can't get off your shoe.Reminder that this doofus & his kind are the same ones who threw a fit about unemployed folks but of course, now take joy in unemployment for others.
Scum.
We need to move past the notion that these are people. I'd usually be inclined to refer to them as vermin but it has to be acknowledged that even vermin exist for more than themselves alone.These people are like the crap you can't get off your shoe.
I'm honestly not sure which are more pathetic, stupid mother*ers like Bruce Poliquin--the Republican candidate running for a US House of Representatives seat for Maine--who do this * or the stupid mother****ers who lap it up uncritically.
We need to move past the notion that these are people. I'd usually be inclined to refer to them as vermin but it has to be acknowledged that even vermin exist for more than themselves alone.
They're parasites.
I'm honestly not sure which are more pathetic, stupid mother*ers like Bruce Poliquin--the Republican candidate running for a US House of Representatives seat for Maine--who do this * or the stupid mother****ers who lap it up uncritically.
We need to move past the notion that these are people. I'd usually be inclined to refer to them as vermin but it has to be acknowledged that even vermin exist for more than themselves alone.
They're parasites.
When we dehumanise and demonise our opponents, we abandon the possibility of peacefully resolving our differences and seek to justify violence against them.
I draw the line at violence.While I have a similar political stand point to you, and totally agree that these are terrible, terrible people, I draw a solid line on dehumanisation. Nothing good in history has ever come from considering anybody to be less than human.
One of the reasons I hang around the CPC thread. Probably the main one, in fact.You can't fix stupid but you can laugh at it.
I draw the line at violence.
Edit: I'm sort of curious how violence against "terrible, terrible people" may be unjustifiable compared to against dehumanized individuals. Those two terribles sound pretty bad.
I mean I'm willing to defend myself and others against a legitimate threat of immediate physical violence--distinct from a supposed looming and/or potential threat or a threat absent physical violence, as a difference in viewpoint--and what I think of one who may perpetrate such an act isn't likely to enter into it. Liking somebody isn't what stops me from from perpetrating such an act myself, though I recognize it could potentially make me hesitate to defend myself or another if someone I like represents such a threat.
I wasn't remarking on the Nelson Mandela quote. I was remarking on my unwillingness to harm another based solely on a low--even exceptionally so--opinion of them. In the absence of a legitimate threat of physical harm, I'm unwilling to legitimately harm another regardless of how I may view them.There is justifiable reasons for violence. Self defence is a good example, and it’s not really what my use of that Nelson Mandela quote was referring too.
I don't know how to convey this more clearly.If a group sees another group as not only less than them, but less than human, they will have less reservations about causing them unjustified harm. It’s been used for millennia to convince military man that they were fighting the good fight.
Respectfully, I did inquire about the difference between the two as it relates to justification for violence. I think you're probably engaging in good faith and that you didn't intend to dodge the question, but you did kind of gloss over it.I’m not implying that you are going to cause physical violence or harm to anybody, just pointing out that there is a difference between a terrible human being and a less-than human scumbag.
Again, I draw the line at violence.I personally, draw a line at removing people’s humanity, partly due to the history involved and partly, (as quoted) because it lessens the chances of a peaceful resolution.