Just reposting this excellent point from lemmygrad

  • a_blanqui_slate [none/use name, any]
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    1 year ago

    I'm not looking to sour relations and am not going to take your position on the matter personally, and it's not that you stoked this argument, it's that I'm actively evangilizing a humanism first leftism. I think as soon as machine gunning kids enters into the political toolkit, regardless of what problems it resolves, we've lost the plot. Whatever nuance you want to inject into the scenario is fine, but at the end of the day it does boil down to you thinking that under certain circumstances it's acceptable, so I don't think I'm unfairly characterizing your position at all.

    • Egon
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      3 months ago

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    • supplier [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      literal infanticide becomes a political necessity as a product of MONARCHY

      If they wanted their children to be safe, then they should not have forced them to be the sole inheritors of a brutal dictatorship

      • a_blanqui_slate [none/use name, any]
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        1 year ago

        political necessity

        Just because people stomp up and down about 'political necessity' doesn't actually conjure that ideological abstraction up into material reality. China didn't machine gun Pu Yi and incidentally, their communist party is still running the show. I don't know how difficult it is not to machine gun a 13 year old, and no amount of "you made me do this" are going to change the fact that we're the ones making the (erroneous) decision to machine gun 13 year olds.

        Kind to people, ruthless to systems, folks.

        • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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          1 year ago

          If Chinese rebels new this online argument was going to happen they probably would've killed whoever this guy is that they let live.

          • a_blanqui_slate [none/use name, any]
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            1 year ago

            I mean they literally let him live after being a Japanese puppet during their atrocity spree in the 30's and 40's, so I think my dumb ass using him as a morality puppet would seem just about par for the course to them.