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@hypolite @starbreaker The same reason we don't cure a victim's wounds by stabbing their attacker.
If women having to fear all men is crappy, so is men having to fear all women.
I want a better world for everyone not a different set of privileged and oppressed.
> If women having to fear all men is crappy, so is men having to fear all women.
Conversely, if men shouldn't have to live in terror of women's anger, then neither should women, queer people, trans people, and non-binary people have to live in fear of men's anger. :)
Beyond that, you seem to have missed the point of my reply which wasn't to endorse such a cruel policy, but to point out the current situation for women by extrapolating on this fictional policy. I'm sorry I wasn't more clear.
This policy is neither realistic nor desirable in the absolute, but it can be useful as a rhetorical tool to outline the current situation most women face.
@hypolite @starbreaker Absolutely I'm privileged. But I'm trying to lift others up rather than throw anyone down.
Been trying to do more than just agree about how bad things are with people who already see the issue recently, so I'm probably not in the ideal head space to spot the rhetorical advancement of absurdity.
@hypolite @DaveHiggins The only problem with improving the world through violence is that doing so tends to hurt innocent people.
If we could have assassinated Hitler and his buddies in 1938 (along with Hirohito and Tojo) we might have avoided WWII. But such a precise application of violence wasn't feasible.
To riff on your example, in hindsight how many innocent would you have been confortable killing if it meant taking out Hitler as well? At the time, Hitler was given the benefit of the doubt by many Western politicians and journalists even after he wrote Mein Kampf, so it isn't a "feasibility" question, rather that damn privilege again.
@hypolite I would have had Hitler whacked after his little stunt in the Munich beer hall, and not waited for him to write and publish his manifesto.
