Bad Guys in White Hats, part I of V

[Doktor Howl]

Recently had to have this conversation.

With my 7 year old.

Think this is good for Common Walls?

[Doktor Howl]

Holy shit.  They've gone berserk.   

[Phox]

I swear to all that is fucking holy, I will fucking have an aneurism from the sheer stupidity and denial over there.

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My initial thought would be to try and avoid the good vs. Evil trap.  To transition out of binary thought, however, I cannot categorically exclude dualism by simply trading it for dogma.  One possibly fundamental misattribution I sometimes entertain is that "evil" signals a systemic problem.  I cannot countenance that evil is necessary to further any aim, be it biological or teleological.  The problem is that thinking about "it" and beyond is hard, in particular when the evil at hand calls one to think out of personal concern, of course.  The difficulty with this is that all affronts to the nature of care are personal and violent, on different levels.  Just thinking about it can cause some to react violently, which does not always help the swelling...  Cultivating the ability to discern the meaningful differences of a situation while driving a broken bus of wounded soldiers under fire in enemy territory maybe is not for everyone?

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

Recently had to have this conversation.

With my 7 year old.

Think this is good for Common Walls?

There's been a common thread running through a lot of conversations lately about how many of us are part of a country or a society that condones terrible acts and the feeling of impotent rage and heartbreak that comes from not seeing a way that we can change that fact. It's directly related to Occupy and the Arab Spring, riots in London, and the increasingly shrill noises coming out of political camps. People know something is not right and they're looking to someone to make it better.

Only we don't have anyone who can make it better. No one's steering the train.