Trump to bring back public executions.
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This is why I have a hard time taking some people's outrage over violence at face value namely conservatives, particularly when they condemn cartel brutality but enthusiastically support public executions or celebrate the deaths of people they consider evil.
Think about it: cartel members may justify killing their enemies in much the same way some people justify executing convicted murderers. Both can involve the belief that the person being killed deserves it. Obviously, a cartel execution and a lawful execution aren't legally or morally identical, but the underlying desire for retribution can be similar.
And not everyone a cartel targets is necessarily guilty of what they're accused of. Some are rivals, some are suspected of disloyalty, and some are innocent people caught in the middle. Simply labelling someone an enemy doesn't establish that they deserve to die.
My point isn't that every conservative is a hypocrite or that the two situations are identical. It's that some people seem to oppose violence selectively. They condemn it when their enemies commit it but celebrate it when they believe the victim deserves it.
If your opposition to violence disappears when the person suffering is someone you dislike, is your objection really to violence itself, or is it to who gets to use it?
That's the contradiction I want people to think about. Sometimes what gets presented as a principled concern for justice looks more like a desire for retribution, and I think it's fair to question that.
This is why I have a hard time taking some people's outrage over violence at face value namely conservatives, particularly when they condemn cartel brutality but enthusiastically support public executions or celebrate the deaths of people they consider evil.
Think about it: cartel members may justify killing their enemies in much the same way some people justify executing convicted murderers. Both can involve the belief that the person being killed deserves it. Obviously, a cartel execution and a lawful execution aren't legally or morally identical, but the underlying desire for retribution can be similar.
And not everyone a cartel targets is necessarily guilty of what they're accused of. Some are rivals, some are suspected of disloyalty, and some are innocent people caught in the middle. Simply labelling someone an enemy doesn't establish that they deserve to die.
My point isn't that every conservative is a hypocrite or that the two situations are identical. It's that some people seem to oppose violence selectively. They condemn it when their enemies commit it but celebrate it when they believe the victim deserves it.
If your opposition to violence disappears when the person suffering is someone you dislike, is your objection really to violence itself, or is it to who gets to use it?
That's the contradiction I want people to think about. Sometimes what gets presented as a principled concern for justice looks more like a desire for retribution, and I think it's fair to question that.
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