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There’s no provable moral difference between bad police and evil policy.
It's a core part of leftism. They justify their actions around the moral impetus behind it. I've seen leftists react to failed policy with "at least they tried". And every time a school shooting happens, leftists will justify gun bans with "we have to do something". It's also the reasoning behind the leftist phrase "no bad tactics, only bad targets".
This is a good insight. And most of the time it's not even the result of a sincere, well-meaning but misguided urge to act - rather, they're acting entirely for the purpose of feeling important and superior, or to signal their purity to others.
Change and progress aren't always bad, but a huge amount of the world's problems come from 'doing something' for the sake of doing something, without caring about the consequences.
The COVID jab causes heart problems, especially in young people - not to mention all the suicide and drug deaths from the restrictions. That was something. Was it better than nothing?
Nuclear annihilation of 80% of the world population is something. Would they argue that is better than nothing too?
I think they actually would argue that nuclear annihilation is a good thing.
I fucking hate the idea that it's "better than nothing". Because there's many many instances of that "something" being actively harmful. And what's worse is that this idea that "something is better than nothing" is so pervasive among the midwits out there that it's not even an uncommon idea.
In the broadest sense he isn't wrong. You shouldn't wait for a perfect solution to try and do something.
The problem is this isn't really a solution, its just political smokescreening.