carsongross

Absolutely: I am accusing you of either that, clouded thinking, or both.

In fact, this discussion is a demonstration of my point. We are both attacking one another's intellectual and moral reasoning abilities via speech. This is better than than us having a fist fight over the matter.

Quoting the judge, when handing down the death sentences:

I consider your crime worse than murder... I believe your conduct in putting into the hands of the Russians the A-Bomb years before our best scientists predicted Russia would perfect the bomb has already caused, in my opinion, the Communist aggression in Korea, with the resultant casualties exceeding 50,000 and who knows but that millions more of innocent people may pay the price of your treason.

Apparently the "shrillest" moment of the "red scare" was correctly convicting two communist spies of treason.

Comment 1: > It's not great, but the idea that attacking people verbally is somehow "better" than attacking them physically is wrong.

Comment 2: > Solving disagreements through discussion is better than solving them through violence

lol, always amusing when I assume both intelligence and good faith when discussing things on the internet.

You think I'd learn.

That's insane.

All of human moral progress can be briefly summarized as "talking, not hitting."

As with the original post, I look forward to the thoughtful, tightly reasoned and unemotional discussion that this post will generate.

Well, if is someone is paying you for your light...

We get more of what we tax less?

Weird.

I don't think that that minority is all that small.

Dear Toyota: look at this truck, and at the FJ40, and get to work.

Telling the truth will get you fired, ostracized and possibly assaulted today.

I don't like it, but telling the truth, like riding a bike to work, is a luxury that only the extremely rich and extremely poor can afford today.