Tag: morality

I Think A Lot Of The Time When People Do Unspeakable Things

It’s tempting to just write them off as monsters and take the emotionally satisfying route of just killing them or whatever.  “You’re bad and you will be punished” and like I mean if that actually stops it from continuing, great but like sometimes I wonder if it actually helps.

Like it’s tempting to take the harshest, most just kill em’ position with serial killers or whatever and like I get that but I’m not sure that stops there from being more of them and like looking at prevention, looking at the causal factors in terms of the most hideous things that happen is uncomfortable because it shows that evil isn’t something that just shows up for us to do battle with, evil is a sign of social failure and that’s fucking uncomfortable and whether a given individual is redeemable or retrievable or whatever isn’t really the point.  The point is that there was a point where they were usually and we didn’t, and how that happened is ugly to look at.

IDK.

Democracy’s greatest strength and greatest weakness is that it is a system based upon compromise

I think a lot of people fail to understand that, or do understand that and avoid involvement because they believe that such a thing compromises moral purity, and tends to moderate one, but I disagree, a willingness to compromise to get something done, is far more radical than saying “I’d rather have things stay as they are, because doing anything that might actually work to change them would undermine my radical beliefs.”

If the choice is between making a compromise with the opposition and having five hundred people treated for an illness who wouldn’t have been able to access care otherwise (but not all the people who wouldn’t be able to access care) and not getting into it and zero people being treated, I’m going with the five hundred.

If the choice is between making a compromise with the opposition and having 100 children slaughtered and leaving it alone and having the opposition reach a consensus of 10,000 children slaughtered, I’m going with the 100, even if that sounds vile, even if that sounds horrible, I’d rather save 9,900 lives than lose 10,000

Do. What. It. Takes.