The Norwegian monster was counting on the Libertarian Party and the Republican Party!!!!
in Close to Politics ·
Nobody needs to take sides here.
It shouldn’t matter if you're on the right or the left. I guess any sane, decent society just punishes crimes against anyone, even their political rivals. Because honestly, once you get rid of all your opponents, that’s when the crackdown starts hitting your own people.
That’s just the logical reason to go after criminals—not because of some weird sense of mercy or love for "enemies" or whatever.
I mean, look, when criminals can't find anything to loot in neighboring states, they eventually turn around and start robbing their own neighbors. When there's no more meat to steal elsewhere, they'll come for what's in their own backyard. Everything comes full circle eventually, I suppose.
But, you know, bringing any kind of criminal onto the same level as everyone else basically means you're accusing or blaming an entire group for one person's actions.
We've seen this lately with how people talk about Muslims: using terms like "so-called Islamic terrorists" or "alleged Muslim terrorists" and stuff like that. It feels like such a massive leap in logic to me.
By that same logic, should we be talking about "Catholic terrorism"? Or something along those lines?
I'm really against that whole way of thinking, mostly because most Catholics are good people, just like most Muslims are actually really good people too. Why would I want to judge the majority based on the actions of a tiny minority? That just creates resentment instead of building peace and trust. I guess some individuals just don't want peace, and those are usually the worst kinds of people.
It shouldn’t matter if you're on the right or the left. I guess any sane, decent society just punishes crimes against anyone, even their political rivals. Because honestly, once you get rid of all your opponents, that’s when the crackdown starts hitting your own people.
That’s just the logical reason to go after criminals—not because of some weird sense of mercy or love for "enemies" or whatever.
I mean, look, when criminals can't find anything to loot in neighboring states, they eventually turn around and start robbing their own neighbors. When there's no more meat to steal elsewhere, they'll come for what's in their own backyard. Everything comes full circle eventually, I suppose.
But, you know, bringing any kind of criminal onto the same level as everyone else basically means you're accusing or blaming an entire group for one person's actions.
We've seen this lately with how people talk about Muslims: using terms like "so-called Islamic terrorists" or "alleged Muslim terrorists" and stuff like that. It feels like such a massive leap in logic to me.
By that same logic, should we be talking about "Catholic terrorism"? Or something along those lines?
I'm really against that whole way of thinking, mostly because most Catholics are good people, just like most Muslims are actually really good people too. Why would I want to judge the majority based on the actions of a tiny minority? That just creates resentment instead of building peace and trust. I guess some individuals just don't want peace, and those are usually the worst kinds of people.