Oath Keepers Turn Up at Michael Brown Protests in Ferguson, Missouri

I don't know what is worse, the attitude or the way you manage to deliberately misunderstand the details in order to avoid seeing the larger picture.

Yes you do have a choice. He has a choice too of course. But if we are assuming he chooses to do the bad thing, that doesn't mean you have to also. But I like how you seem to not want to have the choice. I think this is why you don't understand how war is different. No one is ordering you to shoot, or even to be there. The reason you are under orders in war is precisely to deprive you of the moral choice.

I also think you misunderstand the situation. If someone burns down a building, they still get arrested and prosecuted for it. A riot isn't like a pass to break the law. IF you were really interested in prosecuting and punishing criminals, you'd bring a camera, not a gun.

Because they weren't fucking morons. They would have lost overwhelmingly and then faced what would have essentially been genocide or mass deportations. You think black militancy wasn't a thing? It was

Dude, black people are Americans. If you think it's morally right to kill for your store, how is it not morally right for them to kill for their human rights? You keep thinking of black people as some kind of other, not really part of the society you live in.

Thing is, though, I'm not a gigantic dripping pussy.

Actually, you are. Carrying a gun isn't a sign of power, it's a sign that you feel you have no power without the gun. When I see those pictures of oath keepers with their AR-15's, I see fear. They are scared. You are scared. Here's the telltale line: " Throw away the work, the hope, the memories, all of it, because some fuckstain decided he wanted to burn down a stranger's store and his right to do that and keep on happily living is more important than any rights I have." You are worried that people can do anything they want to you and there's nothing you can do to them, right? Why wouldn't you assume that this hypothetical person who destroys your property wouldn't be just as civilly and criminally liable for it as anyone else? You have this entire imaginary world in your head where the world shits on you and privileges everybody else. But there's no logic to it. If the world protects him and screws you, wouldn't you go to prison for shooting him? Wouldn't that prevent you from being the provider that motivated you to protect your store in the first place?

You worry about being a provider, but you are willing to kill someone and go to prison for it (because murder is still a felony).

His actions do have consequences. If he breaks the law, he'll suffer for it. If you break the law, so will you. But I don't actually think you care about that. I think you just want to shoot someone you think is wrong. That's not how society works. So stop fantasizing about it.

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