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Said by many, often when some violence is happening in other lands: โWe want peace for everyone. Iโm against any and all violence, and any form of violence is wrong!โ
This sounds good when written by a PR intern. Or some dumb college kid who knows nothing about the real world but has sat through enough lecture halls to feel smart.
It helps you straddle the fence.
Itโs bullshit.
Yes, terrorists are bad, as is โunnecessaryโ civilian death and attacks on women and children.
This, you have heard before.
Hereโs what you havenโt heard.
Terrorism and unnecessary deaths are the results of humans being humans.
The trade off of free will is exactly thatโฆ FREE WILL to be crazy, unruly, unlawful and to violate othersโ rights.
It happens and you canโt stop it. Ever.
The โpeace over everythingโ and โall violence is badโ talking points are utter nonsense. Under any circumstances.
Many smug people, particularly Americans whoโve lived a life of relative safety, push this college-campus-created drivel.
It shows just how mentally sheltered and naive people are.
If you are female and live alone, and masked men were kicking down the door to your home (or, for males, your motherโs / sisterโs home) and the police were called โ wouldโฆ