Rationalization

[unixronin]

Q:  What do you do when you and two of your buddies, in a drunken haze, beat another acquaintance to death over a period of 24 hours or so, wrap his naked body in a tarpaulin and hide it in his garage, then get turned in to the police ten days later by a third friend to whom you boasted of the murder (and to whom you emailed camera-phone photos, at work, during the process)?

A:  If you live in Crotherton, Indiana, you claim that he was gay¹, and that it's therefore OK because you were afraid Teh Gay would get on you.

[1]  He wasn't.

Comments

[dirtynumbangel.livejournal.com]

Of course, the usual last resort for the intellectually stunted... anyone who disagrees with you is stupid.

You're pathetic. I assume you're a Libertarian. The two seem to go hand in hand.

[tabbifli.livejournal.com]

Amazingly, you're wrong. I have no use for the Libertarians.

I didn't say you're stupid. I'm actually assuming you're quite bright, otherwise you wouldn't be on Alaric's journal - stupid people don't tend to be here; they generally fail to understand him.

I said you're a sheep, and in this particular argument, you are. You can't see past your fears, and so you want someone else to fix the problem for you. Legislate it away, make it so that the other side's fears are bigger than yours, and then yours will not be a problem.

It doesn't work that way. It never has, it never will. Trying to explain this to you is pointless, because you don't want to hear it, you don't want to listen, you don't want to do anything but make the fear go away. You're a sheep in this regard. I don't know you well enough to know if you are in any other way. But this is where it ends for me - feel free to insult me more if you'd like, if it'll make you feel better. I don't mind, really. But trying to show you that legislation won't work is pointless, because you're too damned scared to listen.

[dirtynumbangel.livejournal.com]

Oh honey. Do you really want to go there?

It's not about legislating away fear. It's about punishing severely those who attempt to instill fear through terror.

Get the fuck over yourself, get off your fucking high horse, and grow the fuck up.

[unix-jedi.livejournal.com]

I have no use for the Libertarians.

Oh, C'mon.

Remember, "You can always use them as a bad example!"

[tabbifli.livejournal.com]

Hee. True.

Although there are some very nice Libertarians out there. :) Individually.

As a political party, I find them more or less incomprehensible. You can't use what you can't comprehend, usually. :)