Jason Bed
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Jason Bed
@JasonBed
🇺🇸 Sarcastic owner of an increasing list of unpopular opinions 🇺🇸 I will always be there for the valiant hearts I see in those I follow. 🇺🇸 #ifbap






People who have lived in the country understand this!







This post is an excellent litmus test for understanding of just war theory. Despite the fact that I can see how effective this would be, I must oppose it because the damage it would do to my enemy (who bashes in my mailbox) would far outweigh the good of saving my mailbox. Its disproportionality is opposed by our duty in charity (and even justice) to watch out even for the good of our enemies. (Yes, by the way, I have had my mailbox bashed in by random vandals.)




This post is an excellent litmus test for understanding of just war theory. Despite the fact that I can see how effective this would be, I must oppose it because the damage it would do to my enemy (who bashes in my mailbox) would far outweigh the good of saving my mailbox. Its disproportionality is opposed by our duty in charity (and even justice) to watch out even for the good of our enemies. (Yes, by the way, I have had my mailbox bashed in by random vandals.)



> “Why can’t I fortify my mailbox??” You absolutely can, but this isn’t mere fortifying. This is sneakily hiding the fortification to cause disproportionate harm to the vandal. Fortify in a way that advertises the fortification and you’re on solid ground.


@Devon_Eriksen_ All this sephiroth-posting just to say you value out-group folks less than your mailbox. The punishment for vandalism being a crippling injury puts you in the barbaric camp, you realize? Of course you don’t, lol


It’s a little unclear what it means when the Psalms say that God has “established strength from out of the mouths of very babes,” but I’m convinced this is it. Language means putting the world in rational order, understanding universals and particulars, grasping that *this* man fills a role called “dada” which, you will one day learn, other men fill for other children. In other words it means internalizing the principles that hold the universe together—principles like one and may and time and number, the foundations of music and of physics alike. And see how all this is drawn out from within into speech, the very foundations of heaven and earth coaxed tenderly from mind to lungs, across the teeth, into the very air, to form a shape the meaning of which is love. And for this the universe was founded, and in this the universe is made anew each day, with unfathomable might, the power that ignited a septillion nuclear reactors in the sky, drawn out again—again!—from the mouths of very babes.








