re: #233 Obdicut

Yeah. That’s where we are.

Then it seems to me useless to assert that, because there’s a very, very small minority of people who don’t believe that their actions are reasonable.

I’m sorry, but this is ridiculous to me. That’s the only distinction between Loughner, whose views are so nuts as to be incomprehensible to others, and this guy, whose views are nearly identical to thousands of right-wing anti-Muslim bloggers?

Isn’t that a rather big distinction?

No, it is not.

People to this day believe Che was ‘reasonable’ because they ‘understand’ his writings- and this was the guy who shot women and children himself. Does his ‘reasonableness’ somehow make his murders more acceptable?

Castro too, was directly responsible for untold deaths- does the fact his .manifesto’ made sense to many in any way mitigate his homicidal tendencies?

There are fall down drunks and there are functional alcoholics.

Different wards, same disease.