RE: Neo-nazis conduct a terrorist attack in New Zealand
03-22-2019, 05:50 PM (This post was last modified: 03-22-2019, 05:50 PM by Black Aeronaut. Edit Reason: missed a bracket )
03-22-2019, 05:50 PM (This post was last modified: 03-22-2019, 05:50 PM by Black Aeronaut. Edit Reason: missed a bracket )
Only time will tell at this point. While I have faith in humanity to rise above, I also am very well aware of how horrific human beings can be.
Until hate and misery have been stamped out, there will always be a risk of violence in some manner. And I ask: how far are you willing to go? Think of it as a questioning in the mode of the Socratic Method. What rights and liberties are you willing to give up for security that isn't really there? You can eliminate all kinds of paths for violence to transpire. And yet, even in the most restrictive of settings (e.g.: Japan), it still happens.
(The only reason why violence is not even more prevalent in Japan is the social tick about suicide being a convenient way out, thus absolving them of any guilt or shortcoming. Trust me, were it otherwise, we'd be seeing a very different picture.)
(Oh, and the PM Abe recently had to introduce legislation to the Diet: no more corporal punishment for children by anyone. Not even their parents. Because, evidently, there actually IS a child abuse problem in Japan. Whodathunkit? That there'd be an issue with people expressing themselves violently in such a repressed society? </s>)
Until hate and misery have been stamped out, there will always be a risk of violence in some manner. And I ask: how far are you willing to go? Think of it as a questioning in the mode of the Socratic Method. What rights and liberties are you willing to give up for security that isn't really there? You can eliminate all kinds of paths for violence to transpire. And yet, even in the most restrictive of settings (e.g.: Japan), it still happens.
(The only reason why violence is not even more prevalent in Japan is the social tick about suicide being a convenient way out, thus absolving them of any guilt or shortcoming. Trust me, were it otherwise, we'd be seeing a very different picture.)
(Oh, and the PM Abe recently had to introduce legislation to the Diet: no more corporal punishment for children by anyone. Not even their parents. Because, evidently, there actually IS a child abuse problem in Japan. Whodathunkit? That there'd be an issue with people expressing themselves violently in such a repressed society? </s>)