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I can't help but find myself on your side on this one. After years of horrific abuse of protesters by police, and denouncement of such, I get to sit here and wa

I can't help but find myself on your side on this one. After years of horrific abuse of protesters by police, and denouncement of such, I get to sit here and watch those same people turn around and denounce non-escalation just because of who the protesters are this time. Like most protests, I feel sure that the majority of the violence was committed by a relative few extremists and a lot of people were content to express their anger with perfectly legitimate shouting and standing around. Had this event been escalated it is likely a lot of those people would be dead or injured, making this whole thing a lot worse. Sadly, I am becoming quite used to being disappointed in my countrymen.

ithkuil 6y ago
that's what makes it hard to fix stuff. Group A gets treated unfairly w.r.t how group B is treated. Clearly the welcome outcome is that group A becomes treated justly, at least as justly as group B. Yet, some members of group A wouldn't mind that at, if that option were not on the table, group B were treated at least as badly as group A. It's stupid, it's counterproductive, but hey, humans... When group A sees another instance of group B being treated (again) better than how group A would have been treated in those circumstances, I think it's not surprising how people can get a tad angry and when you're angry, your thoughts wonder a little bit more on the dark side, right? When some people from abroad kill people in your soil, it's quite understandable that people get angry and talk about bringing pain to people in the countries where these attackers come from. It's that "right"? Will that create a better world? Clearly if you just found a way for that never happening again, that would be enough right? The sense of "punishment" is so deeply ingrained in our nature; it's not a prerogative of part of the political spectrum.

ithkuil 6y ago

that's what makes it hard to fix stuff. Group A gets treated unfairly w.r.t how group B is treated. Clearly the welcome outcome is that group A becomes treated justly, at least as justly as group B. Yet, some members of group A wouldn't mind that at, if that option were not on the table, group B were treated at least as badly as group A. It's stupid, it's counterproductive, but hey, humans... When group A sees another instance of group B being treated (again) better than how group A would have been treated in those circumstances, I think it's not surprising how people can get a tad angry and when you're angry, your thoughts wonder a little bit more on the dark side, right? When some people from abroad kill people in your soil, it's quite understandable that people get angry and talk about bringing pain to people in the countries where these attackers come from. It's that "right"? Will that create a better world? Clearly if you just found a way for that never happening again, that would be enough right? The sense of "punishment" is so deeply ingrained in our nature; it's not a prerogative of part of the political spectrum.