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I agree with the idea that calls for violence are bad; however most people in the world are more than happy to support both violence and calls for same against people and organizations they believe to be sufficiently significant threats.

Are calls for violence against Hitler during WW2 bad? How about the Japanese imperial navy?

How about calls for violence against Putin during his war of aggression?

This isn’t rhetoric; I’m just pointing out that it isn’t as black and white as people seem to make it. (It is black and white for me, as I’m with Asimov on the matter, but it isn’t for most humans.)



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