TikTok trend where gun owners LARP that someone broke into their house and they finally get to kill a person like they’ve always wanted pic.twitter.com/kWNXczAkhh— Rafi (@rafi_dot_net) June 25, 2021
It's not romanticizing. I'm saying we had a system by which we got rid of these people. Now, we're so civilized we did away with it, without thinking about what we were going to do with these people afterwards. Now we're stuck with them. It's not romanticizing to say we used to feed them to machine guns and maquahuitl, and nobody missed them afterwards.
I'm questioning your assumption that "these people" are an inherent subset of the population, who are distinct from the rest of the population, who you can identify throughout history, and who society needs systems to "get rid of". It seems like pseudoscientific speculation, unmoored in biology, psychology, or history.
It's not romanticizing. I'm saying we had a system by which we got rid of these people. Now, we're so civilized we did away with it, without thinking about what we were going to do with these people afterwards. Now we're stuck with them. It's not romanticizing to say we used to feed them to machine guns and maquahuitl, and nobody missed them afterwards.
I'm questioning your assumption that "these people" are an inherent subset of the population, who are distinct from the rest of the population, who you can identify throughout history, and who society needs systems to "get rid of". It seems like pseudoscientific speculation, unmoored in biology, psychology, or history.