I don’t know if this was posted here before, but I think it something that must be read by a lot of the folks on Lemmy.

  • GraniteM@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    You can’t defeat monsters by acting in a monstrous manner. It’s deeply tempting to use violence against those who have profited from crimes against humanity, but violence of that sort leads down a very dark, dangerous path. Death is the ultimate power that authority of any kind can wield, and we shouldn’t be too eager to wield it.

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      10 months ago

      Aye. That being said, violence is sometimes necessary*. Executions of people who were already made a non-threat? Never.

      *With the caveat that violence does not need to be deadly all that often.