re: #348 The Ghost of a Flea

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Jumping in to point out that, in addition to everything is this thread, people should pause and consider that the Sante Fe murderer’s dad is using the same empty good guy/bad guy construct that gun fetishists and Duterte stans use: where the killer gets to be the umpire and the aggrieved party, and “bad guy” is assigned after the fact.

It’s solving the problem by re-defining the problem. If the value of “good” has to be shortened not only to exclude that final murder spree, but also the trimming of all context that suggests things other than “good”—then “good” means nothing.

And that’s the point. You can always be moral if you have license to declare an act moral retroactively.

Your son murdered ten people dude.