• Opinionhaver@feddit.uk
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      9 months ago

      I have a tendency to present my views in a provocative way, so I don’t exactly fault people for misreading me or my intentions.

      that there is any celebration of vigilantism at all?

      Pretty much, yeah. I think violence should, for the most part, only ever be a response to immediate violence - not a tool for political or ideological expression. I believe in due process, reason, and honest discourse as the means to influence those we oppose - not bullets, or even fists. So when people cheer for acts of vigilante violence, even against those they despise, I see that as both morally bankrupt and strategically self-defeating. It undermines the claim to the moral high ground and reinforces the very hostility many claim to oppose. We should hold ourselves to the same standards as we do others.