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I don’t want to live in a society where unnecessary perilous violence is the norm. Is that a good enough reason for you?
by ugh 15y ago
I don’t want to live in a society where unnecessary perilous violence is the norm.
Is that a good enough reason for you?
- DannoHung 15y agoSo why do you support his right to make threats to undeserving people? Isn't the threat of violence injurious?
- tptacek 15y agoThis is a stupid debate and it should stop here. Nobody is beating anyone, no matter what the Internet tough guys say.
- ugh 15y agoYou are right. Casual threats of violence get me about as riled up as casual sexism so this was both a perfect storm and an overreaction on my part. I should have silently grumbled and ignored it.
- tekromancr 15y agoI don't think he was advocating /actual/ violence.
- ugh 15y agoWhile better than actual violence I also don’t want to live in a society where threats of violence are common. That seems like an irrational and barbaric way of solving problems. Violence is a tiny bit too serious for to just discount the threat of it as a nice rhetorical flourish.
- piccadilly 15y agoWell, a measured quantity of violence ('violence' being a very broad category) targeted at someone who is clearly causing harm is sometimes the only effective way of stopping a greater amount of harm. No-violence is clearly better, but assuming that (say) a rape is being committed, some degree of violence is a reasonable response to stop things from happening or deter other things.
- anigbrowl 15y agoNeither do the recipients of his harassment, I imagine. Let's not put the cart in front of the horse, here.
- godDLL 15y ago> I don’t want to live in a society where unnecessary perilous violence is the norm. I don't think that's going to change any time soon. Unless they legalize it, that is.