re: #150 Killgore Trout

Normally I wouldn’t object. There’s a good historical argument for revolution. However, I don’t think it applies to today’s situation and it’s dangerous to draw comparisons between Obama and historical tyrants.

Revolution in general is so awful, that I think Burke and even Hobbes were onto something in their near-categorical opposition to it. Hobbes in particular correctly notes that, in most cases, suffering under a tyrant is probably safer, overall, than the dangers of revolution and civil war.