His dithering, weak, incoherent performance in the debate? Or is that already forgotten?
Wow, that's some deep thought, there, R D Laing. What if we're the crazy ones?
People close to me have schizophrenia. It's as much a disease as cancer is. If you don't believe that, you've never experienced it up close, or you have an inability to learn from direct experience.
He said “we are all culpable” not “I alone am culpable.”
And that's stupid binary thinking and he was wrong.
You are in no position to determine my degree of culpability, or that of anyone who's not pulling a trigger.
I'm encouraging others not to waste their lives, when they can accomplish far more by staying alive and engaging.
But if you want to torch yourself and refuse to get professional help, I can't stop you. Just don't encourage others to emulate your disordered thinking.
Well, any act that actually accomplished something would be more effective than a futile gesture.
His goal was to die. Any benefit to the Palestinians was secondary, or more likely, an ad-hoc excuse.
Very few policies are determined by party platforms at election times. There were no pro-civil-rights-movement candidates from the major parties back in the 1960s either. Events drove them, and those events didn't just randomly happen. There were decades of organizing, recruiting, training, planning, and hard debate that went into them, and people laid their lives on the line in furtherance of actual goals, not empty gestures.
Similarly, neither major party opposed the Vietnam war, or either of the Iraq wars, or the invasion of Afghanistan, or gay rights. That's all just an excuse for inaction. Public opinion can be changed, even if it sometimes happens too late. But if you're not willing to get out in the streets, nothing will happen at all.
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