I don't go to social media for truth --
I go for
people.
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People aren't sheep. We're
pack animals
who bully each other into
submission.
s
When I think of
you
I feel sad
about
how you waste your
life
on paranoid
gossip.
s
government is not meant to
do everything
for everyone but rather to
be a legal structure
within which to organize
those projects
that nation takes on --
government is
sometimes seen as the
responsible
institution when private
people refuse to do
what is needed for the
general welfare
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The fallacy of capital
punishment
as a necessary evil: The
evil is in the execution
(both literal and
metaphorically).
The “law” to kill becomes
the trump over any
pretense of justice. If we
were to stipulate that
a death penalty has its
place to remove from society
those we deem too dangerous
to live, that would
presuppose a system whereby
only those clearly guilty
of violence and deemed
still dangerous would be executed.
Instead, we have a system
in which the fact of
sentencing is the rationale
for the state to murder.
Yet, how much sense does it
make, even for the
stipulated rationale, to
coldly, deliberately, with
much forethought and
notice, murder people
who are clearly caught,
incarcerated, and removed
from violent impact on the
rest of us?
The death penalty is not
about justice,
or fear of violence, or
even ultimately revenge.
It is about a culture that
worships
death and human
sacrifice.
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There is a strong
difference between believing that
one has the right to defend
oneself and others from
obvious attack and
believing we have a combined
social right to condemn
prisoners, incarcerated
outside of the social
milieu.
s
No use to blame the past
--
engage with what it's
made
and find joy, peace in this
present.
s
Winter
inspires,
minds on fire
to warm, to urge
onward
s
de-gun police
s
12/14-21/20
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