Curiously as I thought about it, both Thompson and Mangione committed wrongdoing and caused harm. I also recognize the harm and wrongdoing caused by Thompson exceeds that caused by Mangione by many many orders of magnitude.
The folks who were detained at Auschwitz and Dachau, I am sure, not only understand that violence was right and appropriate to cease their imprisonment and processing, but really wish the Allies pushed ten times as hard to reach them.
It is an awful thing that sometimes we have to put down rabid animals for the safety of everyone and everything around them. I think we might also want to create effective ways to prevent, detect and treat rabies so that animals don’t have to be put down, and might even consider wiping out the lyssavirus entirely if there was a way to do so, so we never have to put down a rabid animal again.
I propose there might be similar approaches we could take towards corporate greed and desperate circumstances that lead to assassins killing rich corporate officers and the entire country celebrating the act of violence. I don’t know either what they are or how to implement them when they might threaten current structures of political power. Historically, violence will be necessary, but I’m open to ideas.
Curiously as I thought about it, both Thompson and Mangione committed wrongdoing and caused harm. I also recognize the harm and wrongdoing caused by Thompson exceeds that caused by Mangione by many many orders of magnitude.
The folks who were detained at Auschwitz and Dachau, I am sure, not only understand that violence was right and appropriate to cease their imprisonment and processing, but really wish the Allies pushed ten times as hard to reach them.
It is an awful thing that sometimes we have to put down rabid animals for the safety of everyone and everything around them. I think we might also want to create effective ways to prevent, detect and treat rabies so that animals don’t have to be put down, and might even consider wiping out the lyssavirus entirely if there was a way to do so, so we never have to put down a rabid animal again.
I propose there might be similar approaches we could take towards corporate greed and desperate circumstances that lead to assassins killing rich corporate officers and the entire country celebrating the act of violence. I don’t know either what they are or how to implement them when they might threaten current structures of political power. Historically, violence will be necessary, but I’m open to ideas.