• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Not a good comparison even if I agree with your point.

    Left-wing outlets would use more contemporary philosophy.

    Poilievre isn’t Muslim.

    Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for defence, and for defence only. It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence. It prompts us to beat off the mischief which is attempted to be done to us, and to retaliate that which is already done; that the offender may be made to repent of his injustice; and that others, through fear of the like punishment, may be terrified from being guilty of the like offence. It must be reserved therefore

    https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eccodemo/K111361.0001.001/1:5.2.1?rgn=div3%3Bview%3Dfulltext

    As capitalists we should beat him off.