Let me spell this out clearly: you can love someone and still hold them to account, including sending them to prison or even executing them. You can refuse to rape and torture and still put criminals in prison. You can treat people well and know that doing so brings out the best in most people, and that most people rise to meet your expectations while noting that it doesn’t work on everyone.
People who are so lost to cynicism that can no longer see the good, can no longer feel compassion for those they consider evil, and who think the only way to defeat evil is to do evil, are lost, stupid and as dangerous as the evil they think they’re fighting.
People who think violence or coercion are never justified (as opposed to being rarely justified), are also stupid, and allow much evil to be born or persist.
There are positions between these two extremes. This is not a binary.
Stop being fools.
Feral Finster
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“Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.” – George Carlin