Climate activist Greta Thunberg has been charged with a public order offense after being arrested at a demonstration against an oil industry conference in London.
Unfortunately, it’s just more complicated than that. You have to tie your own hands with checks and balances, you can’t give yourself too much power, even if that power could be used for good.
As an example, if we had a Kal El of Krypton in real life, he probably wouldn’t stay Superman forever, he’d eventually be something more like Injustice Superman. This is one of the lessons of history, with men like Marx and Lenin having their work corrupted by others that used the tools they assembled for much uglier purposes.
If there was a way to ensure power couldn’t corrupt, then I’d be fine with surrendering some freedom for security. But there’s actually worse things than death, it’s just not the worst we can do. And climate change won’t kill the planet or anything, it’ll just be another geological extinction event, no different from the dinosaur extinction.
It’s just complicated, and while saving the world is the most important thing in front of us, it needs to be done with our modern, weakened political tools. That requires that we acknowledge other people’s rights to disagree with us, no matter how much it hurts.
I was under the impression she gets arrested very regularly, as that’s very common with non-violent activism, to the point of being planned for. She apparently hasn’t, though, thus this attempt at humor didn’t really land well.
I imagine she’s probably ramping up her protest activities recently.
Climate change is the defining story of our lives. It affects every living thing on the planet. This take encapsulates why liberals are derided.
Every person is free to define the story of their own life, not bow to a requirement to share your values.
Climate change may be our greatest challenge, but no challenge, even extinction, is worth needing to all share the same story.
Your take is why liberal policies still dominate the world. Because freedom does matter very greatly.
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That’s gonna be a block for me dawg.
Try to be civil.
Unfortunately, it’s just more complicated than that. You have to tie your own hands with checks and balances, you can’t give yourself too much power, even if that power could be used for good.
As an example, if we had a Kal El of Krypton in real life, he probably wouldn’t stay Superman forever, he’d eventually be something more like Injustice Superman. This is one of the lessons of history, with men like Marx and Lenin having their work corrupted by others that used the tools they assembled for much uglier purposes.
If there was a way to ensure power couldn’t corrupt, then I’d be fine with surrendering some freedom for security. But there’s actually worse things than death, it’s just not the worst we can do. And climate change won’t kill the planet or anything, it’ll just be another geological extinction event, no different from the dinosaur extinction.
It’s just complicated, and while saving the world is the most important thing in front of us, it needs to be done with our modern, weakened political tools. That requires that we acknowledge other people’s rights to disagree with us, no matter how much it hurts.
What exactly are you trying to say? Why do you think this isn’t news?
I was under the impression she gets arrested very regularly, as that’s very common with non-violent activism, to the point of being planned for. She apparently hasn’t, though, thus this attempt at humor didn’t really land well.
I imagine she’s probably ramping up her protest activities recently.