Somerandomdude
Bluelighter
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- Apr 28, 2016
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Also spacejunk. Re: not being able to reason with unreasonable people, thus justifying attacking them; you do realise that you are then providing justification for yourself being attacked, because there are certainly plenty on the right who would find you unreasonable, because it's of course a subjective thing.
Not so nice when you think of yourself being attacked for your views is it? Everyone deserves the right to speak freely and the laws protection (although I know you didn't explicitly dispute the fact that what Antifa did to spencer was illegal)
Spencer is repugnant. But it is far better to expose him in debate and show him as the idiot he is, rather than stoop lower than him by sucker punching him. I mean he was talking to the camera and got sucker punched. If he was yelling abuse at people or being physical himself it is different.
The logical and practical conclusion of the line of thinking spacejunk espoused is the decent of political discourse into violent street brawling (at best) and quite possibly armed guerilla warfare. This way of thinking could literally turn stable democracies (the best and most peaceful in history) into shit holes.
Crazy. But typical of humans to not know how good they have it, and to abhor reason in favour of our crude tribal instincts. We all do. Unfortunately this period of history will probably be noted as the time we "almost got it right" but fucked it up in our typical fashion.