What kind of hat will you be eating if it turns out to be true. Trump a russian agent. Would you rather be a Russian than turn your back on Trumpism?
He took advantage of a permissive liberal state's attitude toward free speech. Wasn't it state authority that reigned him in? And isn't it quite conservative of you to be tickled by this?
Well, what do you mean by justice. Do you mean doing what is fair, or do you mean getting what you deserve when you don't or both. These things can lead in different directions I think. For a liberal like me virtue is the love of doing what is right for the sake of the self respect that it brings, but for a conservative or too many of them, in my opinion, their idea is that justice should be maintained by fear. This, I think, is a difference that springs from a deeper source, the faith that people are basically good but corruptible or basically evil and manageable only by means of threat.
What would you say about the moral values of a culture that allows such things to happen to itself? Wouldn't the carriers of that culture also bear some culpability? And what of the willingly deceived?
I think people have the responsibility to think things through and not just believe everything they are told.
Fine, me too. Thank God we have sufficient structure and order left in our legal system to bring justice to those who act dispicably. All Hale conservative thinking. One could almost say that liberal permissiveness over speech as in our wonderfully liberal first amendment, and the way this asshole abused it, has been tamped down by judicial authority. All Hale the authoritarian state and the notion of limits. Freedom can't exist without responsibility to use it properly. The left and the right make sense at a higher level of understanding.
I agree but what of a culture that fails to convey that value one generation to the next?
I don't either. My point is that it is the inherent order demanded by law, a major conservative value, that has allowed a radical conservative prick to be brought to heal. I only want to say I recognize that as a value. Freedom of speech must be tempered by responsibility and Jones has for a very long time, in my opinion, been way over the line. My intention is to draw back from the emotional satisfaction that karma brings and keep an eye on how to balance the need for freedom without losing responsibility and visa versa.
My suspicion is that Jones is a psychopath who discovered how to make money off the vicious sickness in others. I understand the deep emotional nature of your offense. I also know the futility of rage.
