Reply To: “Cancel culture” as a weapon of war

jackk,

“I extend my hand to you to retract your support of Putin today or you can wait for the War Crimes Tribunal.”

This has no relevance to my points, and I am not a Putin supporter. We don’t seem to be communicating very well, so let me try the risky venture of using an analogy.

Let’s say there’s two fictional island nations: Lilliput and Blefuscu. One day, Lilliput launches an unprovoked and violent assault on Blefuscu because the Lilliputians don’t like how the Blefuscans open their eggs. Suddenly, all of the other nations in the world deploy a new ray gun that zaps the water around Lilliput, instantaneously creating a massive whirlpool that no boats can cross.

Now the actual act of using the ray gun against Lilliput was justified and correct in this situation – Lilliput needed to be stopped, and surrounding their island with a whirlpool hurt their war effort. But now I’m pointing out how scary a weapon that ray gun is, and I’m worried about how it’ll be used next, and you’re telling me that there is no ray gun and that the waters just frothed up by themselves because the ocean was mad at how evil Lilliput is, and if I don’t accept that, I’m a Lilliputian supporter.