Maybe it’s my own lived experience coloring my perspective, but man the author feels like a centrist sitting upon an imagined moral high ground. “Violence is bad but inevitable” is the kind of milquetoast non-committal position one takes when they have nothing else to contribute to the discussion at hand. My own take goes that one step further, as I said in a prior comment rebutting Altman’s whinging blog post: > You…
Yep, there is a reason why the Four Boxes of Liberty lists the ammo box as the last one: When soap, ballot, and jury are exhausted, it is both inevitable and moral to invoke the ammo box. Violence is never justified as the first step, but it is both expected and justified as the last possible step.