basic human decency, listen, I agree with you. But this is an assumption that you’re making. There is a percentage of the population (some think up to 4%) that are absolute sociopaths. We also have to live with them. Even if they would be ok living without us.
It isn’t about a wish list. People will always be people. Until we somehow cure sociopathy or whatever drives people to be ignorant and cruel (my opinion on conservatives is they are probably borderline sociopaths).
Our options are to work with these people or go to war and exterminate them.
I don’t see how you holding everyone to your standard of morality (even if I wholeheartedly agree with you) is of any use in this. We HAVE to ALL live with each other and do the best we can. Aiming for your absolute unyielding moral compass doesn’t help.
you’re offering a false choice: work with sociopaths or kill them; that’s surrender.
don’t beg killers to be nicer – make their cruelty politically impossible.
you say “we have to live with each other.” fine. but living together doesn’t mean accepting drone strikes on kids because 4% of people are sociopaths. that’s not pragmatism. that’s cowardice with a philosophy degree.
the goal isn’t to pick the lesser evil. it’s to build a world where bombing children isn’t a debate – it’s unthinkable. that’s not moral purity. that’s the whole damn point.
the plan isn’t a secret recipe i’m hiding from you. it’s happening right now, whether you notice it or not.
mutual aid networks. rent strikes. union organizing. boycott campaigns. community defense. abolitionist projects that starve the carceral state. international solidarity that makes imperialist violence costly.
you want a ten-point plan handed to a president? that’s not how this works. leftists don’t wait for permission from power – we build counter-power. we make the old world unmanageable and the new world unavoidable, piece by piece.
the question isn’t “how?” as if it’s some untested theory. the question is whether you’ll get off the sidelines and help.
basic human decency, listen, I agree with you. But this is an assumption that you’re making. There is a percentage of the population (some think up to 4%) that are absolute sociopaths. We also have to live with them. Even if they would be ok living without us.It isn’t about a wish list. People will always be people. Until we somehow cure sociopathy or whatever drives people to be ignorant and cruel (my opinion on conservatives is they are probably borderline sociopaths).
Our options are to work with these people or go to war and exterminate them.
I don’t see how you holding everyone to your standard of morality (even if I wholeheartedly agree with you) is of any use in this. We HAVE to ALL live with each other and do the best we can. Aiming for your absolute unyielding moral compass doesn’t help.
you’re offering a false choice: work with sociopaths or kill them; that’s surrender.
don’t beg killers to be nicer – make their cruelty politically impossible.
you say “we have to live with each other.” fine. but living together doesn’t mean accepting drone strikes on kids because 4% of people are sociopaths. that’s not pragmatism. that’s cowardice with a philosophy degree.
the goal isn’t to pick the lesser evil. it’s to build a world where bombing children isn’t a debate – it’s unthinkable. that’s not moral purity. that’s the whole damn point.
Ok. How?
What’s your plan?
the plan isn’t a secret recipe i’m hiding from you. it’s happening right now, whether you notice it or not.
mutual aid networks. rent strikes. union organizing. boycott campaigns. community defense. abolitionist projects that starve the carceral state. international solidarity that makes imperialist violence costly.
you want a ten-point plan handed to a president? that’s not how this works. leftists don’t wait for permission from power – we build counter-power. we make the old world unmanageable and the new world unavoidable, piece by piece.
the question isn’t “how?” as if it’s some untested theory. the question is whether you’ll get off the sidelines and help.
All those things can be done and not allowing fascism to grow by voting for the not fascist.