He said the goal of his presentation, called Rachel’s Challenge, is to encourage his audiences to embrace the values like kindness, acceptance and love. [More]That's fine, Craig, and everyone I know tries to live that way unless and until someone proves themselves unworthy of honor and esteem.
But what are you prepared to do when some monster embraces values like cruelty, rejection and hatred, and does so with murderous intent and capability?
You know, Craig, there are people in this world who would happily hogtie you and your loved ones, rape you in the most horrible ways imaginable, and then go about the business of slaughter as the ones they haven't gotten to yet watch and wait their turns.
I'd say you might want to embrace that, but the truth is, you've devoted your life to avoiding it.
That's some "leadership" you're teaching those girls.
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I side with Gandhi and the Dalai Lama, men of overwhelming desire for peace who both said sometimes ya gotta shoot the bastards.
ReplyDeleteThe Kolumbine Kids and Cho of Virginia Tech -- AND his successor at Tech who BEHEADED a student, but since he used a knife you never hear about him -- will be with us always. "He who murders ends one life, he who kills himself wipes out an entire world," and he who kills with a gun in a gun-free zone can anticipate claiming responsibility for wiping out a culture.
We're not going to let that happen.
People seem to confuse Peace and Pacifism all the time.
ReplyDeleteSo admirable is seeking peace... but not any any cost (pacifism).
Si pacem vis para bellum.
I encourage my audience to embrace the horror. Kindness, acceptance and love are really great, in my family. Leadership is not one of this guys strong suits. More like "sheepership", or victimhood. I survived a few smoke-wagon parties too, but it never made me into a tub of yogurt. My presentation would be titled, "Load a gun, save a life".
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