I’m just responding in kind, what I said is no more “lashing out” than what you said.
I’m more than happy to have a conversation, but that doesn’t mean I can’t recognize and call out impossible standards. You want a state that never persecuted anyone, show me a society where people didn’t knock out all their teeth that didn’t persecute anyone. Every society has murderers, and every society makes mistakes, and someone who is unjustly punished for a murder they didn’t commit could certainly be said to have been persecuted, no? So I don’t accept this standard.
Show me a state that’s never persecuted people.
That’s an impossible standard, and doesn’t really have anything to do with anything. I’m not interested in impractical moral perfectionism.
Damn I was really hoping you’d prove me wrong.
And I was hoping you’d ground your views in reality.
I guess I was hoping this would be a conversion. But I remain unconvinced and so you’re lashing out.
Poorly laid bait doesn’t invite conversion, you actually got to ease them into the trap with well build points and arguments first.
I’m just responding in kind, what I said is no more “lashing out” than what you said.
I’m more than happy to have a conversation, but that doesn’t mean I can’t recognize and call out impossible standards. You want a state that never persecuted anyone, show me a society where people didn’t knock out all their teeth that didn’t persecute anyone. Every society has murderers, and every society makes mistakes, and someone who is unjustly punished for a murder they didn’t commit could certainly be said to have been persecuted, no? So I don’t accept this standard.