If we were a truly enlightened society, we would shed all unnecessary violence and work towards flourishing as a whole. That said, I'm tired of this false equivalence in violence in politics. Cesar Sayoc, now known as the the MAGA-Bomber, is an insane sycophant. Earlier in Trump's Presidency James Hodgkinson shot at conservative congress members...was he wrong to do so, probably...but he had volunteered for campaigns, protested, and followed every non-violent path imaginable before he took to violence...and sorry to say it, but Trump and his accomplices are demonstrably corrupt and unfit, will set us on an irrevocable path towards climate disaster, and endanger our democracy in many ways...so there are definitely empirical and rational reasons to be alarmed and reactive. When you look at the causes Hodgkinson was fighting for and the things he protested, it is clear he is a rational and compassionate person. Sayoc, on the other hand, has a long list of criminal activity, drug abuse, childish delusions, and volatile outbursts. In an ideal world, perhaps all violence is unacceptable... but being humans and in a far from perfect world, violence happens...and when it does, it matters what preceded the violence, it matters WHY they do it, the details matter and not all instances are equal.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair The truth abo...
As we have seen with the Supreme Court striking down women's reproductive rights, we can't continue to leave laws to be endlessly in...
First, just to vent a little, I want to translate what a reasonable person (i.e. Atheist) hears when a religious person says something like:...