“Why are criminals tolerated? Why do they have any “rights”?”
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I believe the diseased reasoning (which you can even read here on FR among the “progressive”, “open-minded” types) goes like this:
- We cannot allow ourselves to stoop to their level.
- If we simply exterminate them, we are no better than they are.
- What are we fighting for, if we become just as savage and uncivilized as our enemies.
Now, I have to go take a shower....
For one thing, we'll be alive, and they'll be dead. That's pleanty for me.
The thing that amazes me is that we don't just arm some decoys to the teeth and go at it. Flame throwers embedded arount the hull, electric shock, soft-core bullets, whatever it takes. When you are a superpower, the purpose of battle is that you walk away. When you are a tame puppy with French and Arab masters, you fear offending somebody.
- We cannot allow ourselves to stoop to their level.
We haven't. They initiated force. We're entitled to respond with our full force to end they threat the pose to peaceful commerce.
- If simply exterminate them, we are no better than they are.
Yes we are; we're alive (joke).
In any case, we didn't start it. As per above, however, we are entitled to END it, if we can. If they don't want to die, they can find something else to do, like rob aid shipments in the Somali interior.
- What are we fighting if we become as just a savage and uncivilized as our enemies.
Freedom of the seas and the right for our commerce to be left alone. Those two items alone justify an awful lot of force and savagery.
Besides, the Romans pretty darned savage with pirates, but nobody would call THEM uncivilized.
“Why are criminals tolerated? Why do they have any “rights”?”####
I believe the diseased reasoning (which you can even read here on FR among the “progressive”, “open-minded” types) goes like this:
- We cannot allow ourselves to stoop to their level.
- If we simply exterminate them, we are no better than they are.
- What are we fighting for, if we become just as savage and uncivilized as our enemies.
But here is how I view it:
We do not stoop to their level when we are "protecting" our property and people, even if we employ the same methods.
If we exterminate them, we are better because we are doing it for the purpose of peace.
Fighting evil does not make us uncivilized or savages. Quite the opposite. Removing those who perpetrate evil makes us more civilized and less savage.
LOL, good post.
You’re right.
What in the world would these types of people do if a thug walked up to them threatened them and their families with a gun and then thumbed the hammer back?
When would they fight back or would they just keep talkig and a wishing and a hoping that the thug really didn’t shoot them first?
Why aren’t the people who never fight back or “resort to violence” extinct?
How have they survived?
I guess it’s because of “those good rough men who will do violence on their behalf so that they can sleep peacefully in their beds at night”.
Typical “liberal” belief or philosophy, let somebody else do the dirty work while they stand around talking and drinking expensive wine and looking down their noses at the “ruffians” who saved their delicate little condescending elitist butts.