Plenty of reasons to ask others to risk their lives without being willing to risk your own.
At the most basic level, that’s how specializations work: do you whip out your own drill when your tooth hurts? Or do you ask someone with the means and expertise to get the job done to do it for you?
If you’re a US tax payer, then you’re actively paying a shit ton of people to risk their lives on your behalf. All of those people swore an oath to defend the Constitution from all threats foreign and domestic - they are literally oath bound to engage Donald Trump the same way they do any other enemy of the US. Why shouldn’t we ask those people to do their fucking job?
The 2nd Amendment is a last-ditch effort kind of thing, but the longer we get nothing but crickets from the previous paragraph the more relevant it becomes. Fortunately (in this very specific context at least) the US is stuffed with absolute enthusiasts for the 2nd Amendment - why condemn someone for asking one of those people to act on their passion? These fuckers’ wet dream is to swoop in with their trusty ol’ boom stick and make themselves a national hero by slaying a home-grown tyrant. So go on, Cletus: make us proud ya wraskly ol’ cowboy!
In any case, we have a fuck ton of people either obligated or enthused to be the one to single-handedly step up and solve the Trump problem. As someone who’s neither obligated nor enthused, I don’t see any issue with calling on either of those two crowds to put their money where their mouth is, knowing full well that I’m not personally willing to risk my own life or freedom.
I wasn’t talking about asking others to risk their lives without risking your own though, I specifically said ‘especially keen’, as in eager to sacrifice others for their own enjoyment (or whatever.)
As a way of calling out the hypocrisy of the people who claim to be all gung-ho to stamp out tyranny from behind the barrel of a gun I have no issue with it, but ‘why aren’t you sacrificing yourself to satisfy my vicarious moral outrage’ is a bit fucking rich coming from someone who isn’t also lining up to do the same thing. One might even call that a kind of hypocrisy too.
That’s not what the previous poster said though, nor is that what ‘keen’ means.
I’m especially keen for someone to step up and do the deed, but that has nothing to do with my enjoyment, and goes way beyond just the morality of what’s happening (although that part of the situation is also fucked). But no, my country is under attack, and I want that attack to stop. And in every thread like this one where we express frustration with the people whose job is to stop the attack just standing idle and letting it happen; some jackass always chimes in with “well why don’t you do it??” as though it’s hypocritical to tell people to do their job. It’s not.
You know what, I think maybe I was a little overzealous in my reading of that person’s comment. I just went and reread it and realized there’s not a lot there, so I was probably assuming intent or meaning that may or may not have been there. My bad.
Plenty of reasons to ask others to risk their lives without being willing to risk your own.
At the most basic level, that’s how specializations work: do you whip out your own drill when your tooth hurts? Or do you ask someone with the means and expertise to get the job done to do it for you?
If you’re a US tax payer, then you’re actively paying a shit ton of people to risk their lives on your behalf. All of those people swore an oath to defend the Constitution from all threats foreign and domestic - they are literally oath bound to engage Donald Trump the same way they do any other enemy of the US. Why shouldn’t we ask those people to do their fucking job?
The 2nd Amendment is a last-ditch effort kind of thing, but the longer we get nothing but crickets from the previous paragraph the more relevant it becomes. Fortunately (in this very specific context at least) the US is stuffed with absolute enthusiasts for the 2nd Amendment - why condemn someone for asking one of those people to act on their passion? These fuckers’ wet dream is to swoop in with their trusty ol’ boom stick and make themselves a national hero by slaying a home-grown tyrant. So go on, Cletus: make us proud ya wraskly ol’ cowboy!
In any case, we have a fuck ton of people either obligated or enthused to be the one to single-handedly step up and solve the Trump problem. As someone who’s neither obligated nor enthused, I don’t see any issue with calling on either of those two crowds to put their money where their mouth is, knowing full well that I’m not personally willing to risk my own life or freedom.
I wasn’t talking about asking others to risk their lives without risking your own though, I specifically said ‘especially keen’, as in eager to sacrifice others for their own enjoyment (or whatever.)
As a way of calling out the hypocrisy of the people who claim to be all gung-ho to stamp out tyranny from behind the barrel of a gun I have no issue with it, but ‘why aren’t you sacrificing yourself to satisfy my vicarious moral outrage’ is a bit fucking rich coming from someone who isn’t also lining up to do the same thing. One might even call that a kind of hypocrisy too.
That’s not what the previous poster said though, nor is that what ‘keen’ means.
I’m especially keen for someone to step up and do the deed, but that has nothing to do with my enjoyment, and goes way beyond just the morality of what’s happening (although that part of the situation is also fucked). But no, my country is under attack, and I want that attack to stop. And in every thread like this one where we express frustration with the people whose job is to stop the attack just standing idle and letting it happen; some jackass always chimes in with “well why don’t you do it??” as though it’s hypocritical to tell people to do their job. It’s not.
You know what, I think maybe I was a little overzealous in my reading of that person’s comment. I just went and reread it and realized there’s not a lot there, so I was probably assuming intent or meaning that may or may not have been there. My bad.
Easy to assume malice when we’re surrounded by it irl. I do that shit all the time too… we’re all just fed up and exhausted.