I said something along the lines of:

“Wow, I haven’t had a reason to smile ear to ear in a while.”

Along with

“Nah, the more dead corpos dragons, the better.”

In response to some liberal going off about how violence is never the solution, not mentioning how this murdered dipshit has personally overseen a system that perpetuates harm, suffering and death (violence) in the name of profit.

…

Good ole’ civility clause.

Whats the paradox of tolerance?

.world mods have never heard of it I guess.

  • Maggoty@lemmy.world
    213·
    9 months ago

    That’s the joke. If you define violence as broadly as you have then you end up in an ethical trap that has only one exit; violence is moral and I should use it to protect my values before it is used on me.

    I simply didn’t highlight the exit in my previous comment. But I can see from yours that you’ve already decided this and decided this excuses people from following any rules about not propagating violence.

      • Maggoty@lemmy.world
        22·
        9 months ago

        There’s large differences between violence being immoral, having qualified exceptions, and being moral. Most people are in the middle. Every really shitty period of time, like when commoners were being executed en masse in the French Revolution, lives in the violence is moral category. I don’t know about you but I’d like to avoid living in a time where my neighbor can report me to the secret police and I get sent to the gulag, or where educated people are rounded up and shot because they “can’t be trusted”.

        That’s where celebrating mob violence leads, on the left and right.

          • Maggoty@lemmy.world
            12·
            9 months ago

            That’s the problem, whenever this happens the definition of “enemy” becomes extremely malleable. And suddenly it’s just whoever the mob doesn’t like. No matter what class they belong to. The French Revolution killed far more commoners in the Reign of Terror than it did rich folks.

            So what you’re positively drooling over is just as horrendous as a secret police disappearing enemies of the state.

    • Vent@lemm.ee
      6·
      9 months ago

      I’m hearing that you believe violence is never moral, correct? Is Ukraine amoral to use violence to stop Russia’s invasion?