It's been years. Years of this shit parading unendingly. If you're still stuck on disgust you're like a gastric surgeon who gets squeamish about vomit and shit.
It's an understandable response and in most other contexts perfectly reasonable, but in this one it's still going to piss off whoever has to pick up your slack in the operating room, maybe enough that they'll even call you a cuck. Because you're already on the team that's elbow deep in shit and just going "woe is me, I just want these bowels working correctly" instead of being willing to do the necessary work to make that reality. Disgust isn't a productive emotion and it's one that you rightly should acclimatize to if it's necessary.
Engage in real politics and think through the full series of causes an effects that don't lead to a sizeable domestic faction with establishment backing that wants you dead or enslaved actually killing or enslaving you or your friends.
Burying your head in the sand and wailing "I wish it wasn't this way!" isn't one of them.
Yes, that's exactly what I've been saying. If you think giving up all our principles and behaving like animals is a good tactic, or that condemning indiscriminate violence is "burying my head in the sand", then I don't really know what to tell you.
Pretending the violence we've witnessed has been entirely indiscriminate not targeted at political opponents, or shouting at strawmen that any violence, no matter how measured, makes you no better than an animal is exactly burying your head in the sand and ignoring realpolitik.
It's not that you need to tell me anything, you should just stop telling yourself that fairytales are real before you drag everyone around down with you. Nobody is saying you have to give up all your principles, that's just the sand in your ears speaking, just to examine what parameters within those principles still let you to actually win in the real world.
Ignoring all that and shirking the idea of balancing complex moral calculus so you can live in a world of simplistic all or nothing ultimatums that will never be "all" so are inevitably just chosimg "nothing, but more smug" is just childish.
It's been years. Years of this shit parading unendingly. If you're still stuck on disgust you're like a gastric surgeon who gets squeamish about vomit and shit.
It's an understandable response and in most other contexts perfectly reasonable, but in this one it's still going to piss off whoever has to pick up your slack in the operating room, maybe enough that they'll even call you a cuck. Because you're already on the team that's elbow deep in shit and just going "woe is me, I just want these bowels working correctly" instead of being willing to do the necessary work to make that reality. Disgust isn't a productive emotion and it's one that you rightly should acclimatize to if it's necessary.
And what exactly would that be?
Engage in real politics and think through the full series of causes an effects that don't lead to a sizeable domestic faction with establishment backing that wants you dead or enslaved actually killing or enslaving you or your friends.
Burying your head in the sand and wailing "I wish it wasn't this way!" isn't one of them.
Yes, that's exactly what I've been saying. If you think giving up all our principles and behaving like animals is a good tactic, or that condemning indiscriminate violence is "burying my head in the sand", then I don't really know what to tell you.
Pretending the violence we've witnessed has been entirely indiscriminate not targeted at political opponents, or shouting at strawmen that any violence, no matter how measured, makes you no better than an animal is exactly burying your head in the sand and ignoring realpolitik.
It's not that you need to tell me anything, you should just stop telling yourself that fairytales are real before you drag everyone around down with you. Nobody is saying you have to give up all your principles, that's just the sand in your ears speaking, just to examine what parameters within those principles still let you to actually win in the real world.
Ignoring all that and shirking the idea of balancing complex moral calculus so you can live in a world of simplistic all or nothing ultimatums that will never be "all" so are inevitably just chosimg "nothing, but more smug" is just childish.