Crusader 8 (princelypublictimeline)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Mar-14 22:36:19 UTC
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@snowcone I had to go to sleep. I'm taken aback by your argument is that "there will always be X, therefore, my claim." If you were saying "there will always be thunderstorms, so we should use umbrellas" I would have no issue. This will sound like hyperbole, but I challenge you to defend your argument that there will always be violence in the world. you may not mean this, but what you're saying will "always happen" is based on people choosing to do these things. I know you just said that your argument doesn't mean we shouldn't try to stop it anyway, but I really would like to hear how desensitizing violence into an unpreventable statistic does anything towards understanding it, stopping it, helping people avoid it, or helping develop social awareness as to decrease likelihood of people rationalizing that it's okay to do such things. you and I could agree it's true, but if society agrees that violence never goes away, it helps justify the actions of members in that society.
