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Well of course you're welcome to differ, I enjoy your points of view and I'm not the sort who gets offended because of a differing point of view; in fact, I welcome it.
You're right, there are times violence might be necessary, and yes of course I'd intervene if a violence situation threatened any of my family members or pets. I don't condone violence at all but I get how it sometimes can happen anyway.
Yet I can't really condone willful violence against government officials, no matter how wrong-headed their actions may seem. I know some people believe that violence is justified when they are being disenfranchised, but I say that only brings about more misery for everyone.
But I agree with your points about outside aggressors having waited patiently for so long and now are having a field day. Again I totally am against it, waving weapons around and threatening LGBTQ people for being who they are, for example - that is never OK. I hate to see the worst of America being the example that others aspire to follow.
All I can say is, I can only do my part not to contribute to the violent attitude out there. Change is a process that requires small steps, not big acts of violence. Hopefully we can work together again as one people at being a more inclusive and non-violent nation.
I agree on all counts - including that Kbin is probably the most aggravating site I've ever used. I've never had so many problems with any social media site before.
I think we do agree on most everything, I absolutely agree with your comments about January 6th. I don't think that random acts of vandalism and violence like that do anything to help anybody - if anything, it actually showed people the real face of American extremism and how bad things can get when we encourage violence.
To me, anyone who wants to take a good honest swing at doing something good to protect our democracy needs to get out and vote, and encourage everyone they know to do the same. Honestly, the big problem we have is that many people just think "well my vote doesn't matter," so a large segment of them do nothing.
They say that all that has to happen to allow evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing. To me strength and "toughness" come from being intelligence and listening to each other and working against the idea that it's OK to act like a spoiled brat if things don't always go your way.