If a person commits rapes, and is truthfully identified as a rapist, does that define him? Can he still be a wonderful person, otherwise, even if he continues to rape? What if he believes he has good reasons or somehow believes he is doing the right things? What if some people agree with him?
Author: Kent McManigal
The Situation Report
You and I live in the real world. A world filled to overflowing with statism. This is just as much our reality as is the fact that the world we live in is full of disease and natural disasters. Almost everyone around us thinks it’s OK to steal and attack–and a few people even believe those things are OK when they aren’t done in the name of governing.
An Extraordinarily Evil “Citizen”
The real “bad idea” here is giving people the political opportunity to meddle in the lives of others, and punish them when they don’t cooperate with their own violation. No good group would condone such evil.
Police Are Not a Race, They’re a Gang
Police wake up each and every day and make the choice to enforce harmful and arbitrary “laws” against people in exchange for money stolen from their victims. It’s not about the cop as a person, it is about the aggression and theft they commit as a condition of keeping the “job.” But, the fact a person would choose to do that shows something very important about their character.
“Diversity”
Recognizing the disastrous nature of forced diversity isn’t justification for government “borders,” though, because forced division is just as harmful as forced diversity. Government’s involvement can turn any idea into garbage.
Statists are So Boring
I’m getting less and less interested in responding to statists’ objections. Their objections are boring. Mostly because their objections never change. Recycled endlessly by people who don’t know their “new” objection has been addressed (and obliterated) over and over again–over the centuries.
Understanding Instead of Judging
I constantly get scolded, and I’ll bet you probably do, too. We shouldn’t be so judgmental. Just accept that some people have perfectly legitimate reasons for being rapists, kidnappers.,Nazis, communists, cops, murderers, or other archators. They feel they are doing the right thing.
Spreading Love and Humanity
Love and humanity and worthy goals. I believe you should make an effort to spread them far and wide. Even toward people who mean you (and others) harm. To a point.
Supporting Government “Services”
If I am attacking the theft and coercion behind some things, don’t take it as an attack on you for using those things–unless you start being nasty in defense of the status quo and making it about some tangent that buzzes your bonnet.
Walter, Walter, Walter… Sigh
Sometimes a person’s blind hypocrisy pains me. Walter Williams could be a genius… if he could just unfetter his mind from those bits of statism of which he approves.