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Sometimes, Violence Really Is the Answer
So when their chosen heroes — the freedom fighters in whom they invested so much moral cachet — showed up at a concert and started beheading raver kids and Asian workers and abducting grandmas and God knows what else, what were Western leftists supposed to do? In situations like that there are really only two things you can do, without switching yo... See more
Noah Smith • Western Leftists Have Lost the Plot
I will continue to work on developing peaceful solutions to our most pressing problems, but I do wonder at what point it would be ethical to start shooting.
"Violence is never the answer" is illogical, ahistorical, and amoral.
What is the "Just Civil War" threshold?
Ryan Selkis (d/acc) 🇺🇸x.comNone has had to fight against an opposition whose leadership (as intercepted messages from the leader of Hamas in Gaza have made clear) sees the loss of their own civilians as desirable because of the advantages it can bring them in the war for international public opinion. Because in this era war is not just waged on the battlefield, but in the ef
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