It's quite simple. You say "No hitting" and then punch a Nazi in the face. The universe does not force your actions and words to align.
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Why should we be allowed to be hypocrites? The fool's "hypocrisy" is the sage's "subtlety".
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Ethics are a map. The map is not the territory, but you can't fold the territory up and put it in your pocket.
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Trying to draw a perfectly consistent map is a fool's errand. Don't bother. The point of a map is to get you where you need to go.
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I oppose hitting because I believe in the rule of law, civil order, the right to discuss disparate beliefs and consider any thought freely.
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For ALL THOSE SAME REASONS, I cheer with every ounce of my soul when an antifa punches a Nazi.
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"But nonviolence!" If nonviolence worked to stop Nazis, WWII wouldn't have had to happen. Denazification wouldn't've had to happen.
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"The eighth rule of the ethics of means and ends is that the morality of a means depends upon whether 1/
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"the means is being employed at a time of imminent defeat or imminent victory. The same means employed with victory 2/
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"seemingly assured may be defined as immoral, whereas if it had been used in desperate circumstances to avert defeat, the 3/
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"question of Gandhi’s passive resistance would never have had a chance against a totalitarian state such as that of the Nazis 4/
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"It is dubious whether under those circumstances the idea of passive resistance would even have occurred to Gandhi" 5/5
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(Alinsky again)
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