[lbo-talk] Tell them we are democrats

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Mon Jun 29 08:41:21 PDT 2009


On Jun 29, 2009, at 11:19 AM, Miles Jackson wrote:
>
> Well, if the cops and militia are "protecting the public from a
> terrorist menace", then the harsh treatment is justifiable, given
> the serious threat to public security.

You may (obviously do) regard injustice perpetrated against others as "justifiable" when you feel some benefit from it. You may (obviously do) agree with the "reasoning" of the Wolf in the Aesop/LaFontaine fable. What you do not do is deny that the "harsh treatment" is unjust, or that you would rightly protest it as unjust if it was done to (rather than for) you, or that everyone else similarly victimized would make the same protest and be right to do so.

Shane Mage


> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos



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