re: #25 nightlight

The taliban makes good on their threats. That’s the DIFFERENCE

Not really. Barbarism is barbarism and the more you travel down that road the easier the path becomes.

If we’re as a society giving people permission to threaten to do these things, than it’s that much easier to decide that it’s okay to actually do them.

For over 1000 years, the Western tradition has been a society of laws, not of vendettas which is why we are free - we can go about our business without worrying that someone is going to come in the night and make us one of the disappeared. Anyone who wants to change that to “protect” me is a fool.

Do you really trust the government that much?