sBaltimore burns, the current and most recent example of violent reaction to perceived injustice. It is not necessary that there is truth or guilt behind the perception in any one particular instance; it is sufficient that there is truth or guilt behind the perceived injustices often enough. This is sufficient to create the perception.
There is nothing right, moral, or just about indiscriminant looting and violence – let nothing I write here suggest otherwise; yet, the fall into such violence is understandable. It is a predictable reaction, blowback, to the policies of the right on the one hand and the left on the other. In the case of the right, the connection is more obvious as it takes little intellectual capacity to connect the dots – the reaction immediately follows the action; in the case of the left, an elementary understanding of economics, incentives, and logic is required – far too much to expect from most, it seems.
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Occasionally a community will react – see Baltimore. It isn’t to condone, only to understand: blowback. There was a statement by one women, one with very poor command of the English language – so poor that one might instantly put her in the category of an uneducated cretan. Yet, her words were golden – the most die-hard libertarian (too small a minority) or morally-consistent Christian (an even smaller one) would have no trouble agreeing with the justness of her sentiment, which means that she will be ignored by almost everyone.
I paraphrase her statement: The police should be under the same law as the rest of us. Full story...
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There is nothing right, moral, or just about indiscriminant looting and violence – let nothing I write here suggest otherwise; yet, the fall into such violence is understandable. It is a predictable reaction, blowback, to the policies of the right on the one hand and the left on the other. In the case of the right, the connection is more obvious as it takes little intellectual capacity to connect the dots – the reaction immediately follows the action; in the case of the left, an elementary understanding of economics, incentives, and logic is required – far too much to expect from most, it seems.
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Occasionally a community will react – see Baltimore. It isn’t to condone, only to understand: blowback. There was a statement by one women, one with very poor command of the English language – so poor that one might instantly put her in the category of an uneducated cretan. Yet, her words were golden – the most die-hard libertarian (too small a minority) or morally-consistent Christian (an even smaller one) would have no trouble agreeing with the justness of her sentiment, which means that she will be ignored by almost everyone.
I paraphrase her statement: The police should be under the same law as the rest of us. Full story...
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