the people who are supposed to stop them are yelling “tread harder, daddy!”
Do you mean yourself and your family/friends/neighbors? What have you done to organize them?
If the line has been crossed where The People should be using violence to fight tyranny, why aren’t you fighting?
If you’re not willing to take the same action, your motives are obviously questionable and you should be regarded as either a provocateur or just someone who hasn’t thought it through enough.
If you’re not willing to bear arms against tyranny, you should admit that it’s not at the level which warrants armed violence. Maybe there’s no level of tyranny which would compel you to violent resistance?
Tyranny happens at all levels. We can’t pretend that the petty tyrant who abuses a low-level position of authority justifies an armed response. At the other end of that spectrum the line obviously isn’t crisp and narrow. Each person is going to have their own line across which violence is justified. But that’s for them to decide. You decide your own line and your action or lack thereof will speak for you.
Do you mean yourself and your family/friends/neighbors? What have you done to organize them?
If the line has been crossed where The People should be using violence to fight tyranny, why aren’t you fighting?
If you’re not willing to take the same action, your motives are obviously questionable and you should be regarded as either a provocateur or just someone who hasn’t thought it through enough.
If you’re not willing to bear arms against tyranny, you should admit that it’s not at the level which warrants armed violence. Maybe there’s no level of tyranny which would compel you to violent resistance?
Tyranny happens at all levels. We can’t pretend that the petty tyrant who abuses a low-level position of authority justifies an armed response. At the other end of that spectrum the line obviously isn’t crisp and narrow. Each person is going to have their own line across which violence is justified. But that’s for them to decide. You decide your own line and your action or lack thereof will speak for you.
It’s interesting that you automatically assume that I’m not doing anything.