I do feel a certain level of responsibility to express ideas I'd like to see implemented, but would be quite horrified if someone took a remark of mine as justification to do someone direct physical harm.
This is why, I presume, you are careful with your words and don't go out of your way to suggest that physical harm would be an appropriate solution for their perceived problems. For example, you don't advocate, and I think would vehemently reject, the notion of non-consensual physical violence as a means of controlling a relationship situation. In contrast, Sarah Palin and others have directly advocated physical violence, using firearms, as a means of "solving" the problem of losing an election. That is what they advocated, because that's what they wanted to happen. Someone has taken the action proposed. Now, the person pulling the trigger holds responsibility, clearly, but can you honestly say that the public figures that advocated a "second amendment solution" and the like are free of responsibility in this situation?
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Date: 2011-01-08 10:31 pm (UTC)This is why, I presume, you are careful with your words and don't go out of your way to suggest that physical harm would be an appropriate solution for their perceived problems. For example, you don't advocate, and I think would vehemently reject, the notion of non-consensual physical violence as a means of controlling a relationship situation. In contrast, Sarah Palin and others have directly advocated physical violence, using firearms, as a means of "solving" the problem of losing an election. That is what they advocated, because that's what they wanted to happen. Someone has taken the action proposed. Now, the person pulling the trigger holds responsibility, clearly, but can you honestly say that the public figures that advocated a "second amendment solution" and the like are free of responsibility in this situation?