• frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe
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    13 days ago

    Fair, I suppose I’m just far more ok with supporting vigilante murder and don’t see the loss of every life as a real loss. But if that’s what you’re going for, fair.

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      13 days ago

      Yeah I’m of two minds. Half the time I’m feeling what Tolkien taught - “many that live deserve death, and many that die deserve life. Will you give it to them?” As I cannot bring the dead back to life, I should not be so quick to endorse the taking of life.

      The other half of the time I’m ready to start a crowd funding campaign to erect a giant bronze statue of Luigi.

      The latter attitude I tend to reserve for flippant comments and posts. I’ve been on a kick lately about suggesting we chain CEOs to boulders and throw them into the Sea. But when I actually sit down and write something more long form, I tend to take the former approach. Also, I wanted to have something that people could reference as an actual calculation for the real magnitude of Thompson’s crimes. I felt not openly condoning murder was better for that purpose. But I still wanted to have a strong moral component, so I took the approach of “all y’all are goin’ to Hell for this.”