Every social issue is a battle of perspectives.
Indeed- battle is very fitting. What many don't seem to want to acknowledge is History- those "battles" lead to blood shed- there is little to no need for blood shed in this case- one group announces it wants to preserve Liberty- another denounces Liberty with vitriol as though it would be the end of the world- exercising Liberty is a Natural, inherent right, as in
UNalienable, not
INalienable (which the author failed to recognize, btw) - the stupid sheep want to deny Liberty, except to their "gain"- their "perspective" is clouded, narrow and shallow from indoctrination by fools who wouldn't know Truth if it was tattooed onto their forehead where they had to see it every time they pass a mirror and look at themselves, which is often- to exercise Liberty is a natural happening- it can't and won't be stopped- it can, and is, restricted by sheep justifying to their flock that it is the right thing to do, even though no harm happened, but cause harm with their restrictions- it doesn't matter which side of the equation you find yourself on- denying Truth will always lead to conflict and ALL conflict begins when one imposes his will on another- it has no political bias, it just is.
History is little more than a long list of conflicts. Even our highest ideals of equality, liberty and reason were birthed in strife and bloodshed. It's terrible but it seems humanity has never advanced away from the caves by any other means. Intellectuals have always stood by saying "can't we all just get along?" but unfortunately they are usually the first to go into the mass grave.
Plenty of progress has been made with peaceful change. You are just making excuses for your side's use of political violence against your enemies.
At one time, but seems we are quickly backsliding.
For example, Vietnam, the War on Drugs, Prohibition, WMD lies about Iraq, federal gun control, 3 Strikes, etc.,
The wholesale rights of millions of people have been deliberately and illegally abused.
When that happens, it is way past talking time.
We are backsliding because of violent mobs in the streets and one side of the political divide deciding to not respect the peaceful transfer of power.
In general I am on the side of the violent mobs in the street.
First of all, they have nothing to gain that is corrupt, and are risking themselves over principle.
Second is that police have been more and more abusive for decades.
Every time I drive the old truck on a remodeling dump run, I get stopped and have police illegally endanger me by actually pointing guns as me, for no legal reason at all.
I have never seen violent mobs who were in the wrong.
Not once.
And in fact, it does not get to that until LONG after something should have been done to fix the problems the mobs are complaining about.
From what I have seen, we need MORE violent mobs, not fewer.
For example, the miltiary is too big, expensive, lying to us about things like Iraqi WMD, etc.