imaqtpie

How so?

I just feel bad for everyone because you're too stupid to see that you're only hurting yourselves with this childish exaltation of violence. I can clearly see that you people are drowning and it pains me, but you're lashing out wildly in such a way that it makes it dangerous for someone to try to save you.

What's even more distressing is that you aren't alone out there. There are also children drowning out there right beside you, but you're making it too difficult to provide any assistance because of your wild flailing. Long after we are dead, the inability of our generation to react maturely and productively to the reality of modern society will continue to haunt our descendants.

Do you have a job? Live in a house? Have any family or friends? Do you eat food?

Unless you answer no to all of these questions, I unfortunately must inform you that you too are a collaborationist.

Actually don't bother, the fact that you're using the internet already proves that you are.

I'm not being intentionally obtuse. I'm trying to open your eyes to the fact that there is no list that can be drawn up. It's an impossible task to separate human beings from the conditions of their environment. The system is inherently flawed, it doesn't matter who becomes the CEO, they are all incentivized to follow the same playbook.

What you suggest has been tried countless times in the past. When you remove the people occupying positions of power, others just take their place. You're ultimately advocating removing individual human beings, when you should be advocating changing the system entirely. Instead of trying to overthrow and take over the system that exists, you should be trying to escape the system and build something better.

I don't have any aversion to physical violence, if it is directed towards a rational goal with defined objectives and limits to its usage. This is an example of the opposite, an arbitrary and chaotic usage of violence that only serves to exacerbate social dysfunction.

If the people you listed don’t help improve the situation then yes, they probably should be worried for their safety

I listed everybody. Every single human being on this planet is, in some way, responsible for the current state of society. There is no line that you can draw between yourself and people [who] don't help improve the situation. We are all, by definition, a part of that group, for as long as it takes until the situation does improve. And that's why I'm trying to explain that this kind of action is taking all of us further away from whatever improved version of society you envision.

You've immensely profited off the death and suffering of others. Every single amenity of modern life that you possess came at a cost. Whatever nation-state you reside in waged countless wars to secure the resources you now enjoy. Everything that you eat and drink is provided to you courtesy of a chain of exploitative corporations that are doing catastrophic damage to the planet and human lives. Everything that you have ever done, including breathing, has exacerbated climate change. Every time you have paid your bills and taxes, you have continued to support this exploitative system. You are actively ruining this planet for untold future generations simply by continuing to selfishly remain alive and being too cowardly to rebel in any meaningful fashion against a system which you clearly understand to be violent and destructive. Shame on you.

Luckily, I don't advocate for murder under any circumstances, because I am not a monster.

Its the idea that “Oh, they are a human being with loved ones just like you”. When the reality is that he was a leech upon humanity who caused internally measured suffering and death. And his family benefited from that.

He literally was a human being with loved ones just like you and me. The fact that the vast majority of people seem incapable of perceiving that reality is absolutely horrifying.

A leech is a leech. A human being is a human being. If you refuse to recognize the difference, you're just as evil as anyone else. You don't know anything about him or his life, which is why it's so easy for you to dehumanize him. I wonder if you would feel the same if you had been there on the sidewalk and watched him gasping for air as he bled out. I wonder if you would feel the same if you had attended his funeral. I would hope not, but I'm honestly not sure anymore, my faith in basic human empathy and decency is somewhat shaken of late.

I'm not even saying that you need to feel bad. I'm just saying that people shouldn't be supporting senseless gun violence and extrajudicial murder, no matter who the victim is. It's like supporting genocide, or chemical weapons. This kind of shit isn't good for anyone, and if you don't understand that you're a fucking idiot.

The reality is that this is just yet another sign of immaturity and arrested development. I forget where I first heard it but… folk been watching WAY too much Steven Universe and similar warm and cozy shit. They think that by always taking the high road they are better people and the world will be a better place because if you do the right thing everyone else will.

I'm confused, didn't you just agree that killing him has no effect? If so, why are you seemingly condemning the people who are condemning the people who are celebrating the killing?

I can assure you that I have no illusions about the brutality of human existence, but that doesn't mean I shouldn't oppose senseless violence when I see it.