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GunslingerGunsl posted...

I think the "well it's to be expected" attitude about something like this is the same as condoning violence. It's not the same as someone who wants to go poke a porcupine for fun and then gets pricked. People are held to a higher moral standard than this. Telling someone they should wear a mask during a pandemic shouldn't end with getting beat up. Saying "if you play with fire you get burned" in this case sounds an awful lot like, "he deserved it." Maybe winter just badly worded his post.

It shouldn't. But expecting everyone to be reasonable and not shitty is some hippie fantasy bullshit. Bad people exist. That logic is like thinking "maybe if someone told Stalin the gulags were mean he wouldn't have used them." Applying your own moral standards to humanity as a whole is naive.

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