Nice straw man. Because I don't think we should arbitrarily round up and kill people, I now support child rapists. (just like I love nazis because I thought we should actually give them a trial over summary execution). ANd yes I love monsters and predators because I believe in a fair trial and not summary punishment. You could not have made the point better if I paid you.
So with your working theory, if you THINK someone may commit a crime in the future, they can be punished before hand out of pocket. Sounds pretty fucking dystopian to me. They should make a movie about that shit (o wait they did!). Thats why we came up with that whole due process thing! See how quickly you ditch your "American" priciples when you think you hold the moral high ground.
This is how it works folks. You become high and mighty and can do no wrong. Cloak yourself in morality and then do whatever you want with your power.
And yes the fall of Republican Rome has NO direct parallels to today with the
populares and
optimates. Clearly nothing to do with today's society.
@918v of course I've being provacative and over the top. Its the fucking bear pit princess!
Ancient Rome cannot be easily fit into the "left wing / right wing" or "Liberals / conservative" discussion as times were different, different religions were involved, and it was part of the time in history where Might = Right was pretty much the only main thing going on, as it had been for thousands of years earlier.
We can learn from ancient history, but it's not exactly the same factions as recent history.
When Communists are working hard to overthrow your government and your society and seize power, you don't need to let them complete their evil before putting an end to it. You know exactly what they are up to and what the end will be so best deal with it before they win and get rid of you.
When Satan worshiping child molesters and murderers are trying to enslave you and become your lords and masters, well it's a lot easier to stop it before they take full control.
Or since let's go again to everyone's favourite go to, it's a lot easier to overpower a few guards on a train than it is to escape when you are already at the concentration camp. It's a lot easier to take out the Komisars when they come to grab folks one at a time rather than trying to gain your freedom from the Gulags.
Much like if you know there are wolves or lions stalking your farm, you don't wait till they kill your kids and destroy your flock and kill you. You go out and wipe them all out so they don't have a chance.
It's a fine line and not everybody is comfortable with it, but sometimes it's a lot more righteous and just to stop someone you know for sure is going to cause great harm and damage to others, be it to an individual, or to an entire society, rather than just sitting on your hands until they have murdered/raped/genocided/enslaved/destroyed.
Afterwards you are simply doing it for essentially vengeance and / or retribution (which is a lot of what folks think of as justice).
Beforehand you are doing it to protect and save the innocent and good.
In the end you are going to do the same thing to the perpetrator, so why not just leave the victim out of it all together.
Again, a very grey area for many, but also a very important point.
And again you have to be very clear on understanding if folks are truly and irreparably given to evil.
It can also be a touchy subject legally and one where you best be on the winning side. (Not that it would matter anyways if you were on the losing side).
It's much like if you see some disturbed looking person walking into a mall or Church pointing an MSR style weapon ahead of them. Do you stop them from killing anyone or do you wait until they have killed a certain number of people before you stop them?
You'll notice the police who most of "the good folks" kind of worship, are firmly in the camp of well they could have so we had to kill them. Whenever THEY claim to feel threatened... Folks seem to way to often give them a pass even when their judgment turns out to be vastly flawed and they turn out to be incompetent cowards.
If you feel the responsibility to guard your flock, you would be doing a poor job if you waited to kill the wolves until after they have killed a bunch of your flock. Which of course is the opposite of what our evil government tries to force good folks to do both on the animal side and the human side.