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arrow-up1401arrow-down1external-linkthis is not about any current events i prommyfiles.catbox.moe(⬤ᴥ⬤)@lemmy.blahaj.zone to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 18 days agomessage-square45fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareCount Regal Inkwell@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up15·18 days agoBut we should also recognise when violence a. Is bad b. Is completely legal And that this is, in fact, a bad thing. And we should question why such violence is legal. … Even if you come out at the other end deciding that yes, this is how it should be. The only “wrong” thing is not thinking about it.
minus-squarelatenightnoir@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·18 days agoExactly! Violence is literally just a thing that exists (I’d argue a sun swallowing a whole planet is pretty violent, for instance), the essence is in the how, when, and why!
But we should also recognise when violence
a. Is bad
b. Is completely legal
And that this is, in fact, a bad thing. And we should question why such violence is legal.
… Even if you come out at the other end deciding that yes, this is how it should be. The only “wrong” thing is not thinking about it.
Exactly! Violence is literally just a thing that exists (I’d argue a sun swallowing a whole planet is pretty violent, for instance), the essence is in the how, when, and why!