It calls a “Riot” —“Public Disorder” and the law that makes Riots illegal. It is named the law “Combating Public Disorder”. It’s about time a law was passed to control and to stop riots and the rioters who are rioting. No one should have to put up with the nut cases who are out of control, who take over the streets, start fires, throw explosives, rocks and now cans of soup, at the police, break windows, go into closed stores and shops and rob and ruin things… These are abnormal people who in many cases are too stupid to know they are not supposed to act those ways, people who cannot control their impulses and who have no respect for other people or the property of other people.
The law “Combating Public Disorder is now a law in Florida, having been presented to and signed by the governor.
“…providing that a municipality has a duty to allow the municipal law enforcement agency to respond to a riot or unlawful assembly in a specified manner based on specified circumstances; reclassifying the penalty for an assault committed in furtherance of a riot or an aggravated riot; prohibiting cyberintimidation by publication; prohibiting a person from willfully participating in a specified violent public disturbance resulting in specified damage or injury; creating an affirmative defense to a civil action where the plaintiff participated in a riot, etc.”
It’s a matter of free speech and freedom of expression to demonstrate for a cause or a reason but a riot is not a demonstration. A riot is a violent action or response by a group of people who cannot control themselves. More laws like this are needed everyplace to arrest, bring to trial and punish people who need to get themselves under control. Rioters are not victims. Rioters are oppressors who demand other people do what the rioters want.
Normal people especially know that one criminal isn’t worth burning a whole city — especially not your city. Not when it’s filled with your people’s businesses, filled with your kids’ schools, filled with your neighbors’ churches. Do rioters lives matter too much? Will there ever be a point when the rioters feel safer than the cops? Should there ever be a point? And if we do reach this criminal’s utopia, what happens to the rest of us?
This whole train of riots has been allowed to fester because of a ridiculous sense of empathy. First off, kids are taught, from cradle to grave, in movies and grade schools and speeches and literature, that white people hurt black people. That’s worse than false… It’s backwards as can be seen by the Riots and the Rioters.
Second, we taught kids that to feel for other people, people different from yourself, and underdogs, generally, is the highest use of your pity. Pitying people like you? That’s selfish. Pitying “others”? What a great person you are.
In reality, it makes you a terrible person. “Compassion first,” or “radical empathy,” is the main virtue of the degenerate. To prove this, consider that all the other virtues require some talent. Prudence, or knowing what to do and when, requires not only brains, but knowledge and experience. Justice requires a sense of balance, and harmony, and a willingness to forgo your own advantage for the sake of a group — a keeping your word even when it kills you. Fortitude means you know what you ought to do, and you have the strength to carry it out, and even to take a beating for it. Temperance means you like to have a good time and play with a good idea, but you know when to cut it short so you don’t ruin other things. These virtues bleed into each other and support each other, and each of them takes lots of practice. They’re revered wherever you go, and they are the only reason, alongside luck, that any society happens to get anywhere. The more of them you have, the less compassion you actually need.
None of these is required to look “compassionate.” You just pick a target — any target — any down-in-the-dumps junkie, any 900lb woman on a motor-scooter, any black criminal, any gang-banging border-jumper, any man failing badly to be a woman, then you look at everyone else, and you tell “your” people to do something about it. And if they don’t do it, you tell them all they’re selfish.
The fact is that you are the selfish one — and a master at sleight-of-hand. After all, you’ve picked this 1% of 1% and told everyone else to change the world for them. If rules are in the way, you throw away the rules — no matter how foundational. If someone doing well has something, you take it away — regardless of whether he earned it. You force everyone to change his life, and you convince yourself you’re not an ass because you’re doing it for someone else. If it were for you, well, that would be selfish. But pick any random nobody to do it for — the more obscure, the better — and you’re not selfish at all. You’re a saint.
Doing this requires no talent. You don’t have to be wealthy, or useful, or beautiful, or intelligent, or even particularly good to others to jump on board the compassion bandwagon. Anyone of any station can jump on board this train, and anyone can invent a new train to jump on. The newer the train, the more random the sufferer, the more trendy the pity-party, the higher the “virtue” — the better the saint.
Thus, the movement to “liberate” and “raise up” the underdog is constantly degenerating. Yesterday, it was for Martin Luther King, Jr., a man of substance and genius who was kicked for the color of his skin. Today, it’s for George Floyd, who died of an overdose while resisting arrest. The need to look compassionate — cheap and runaway vanity, at bottom — means that the need to create victims always exists, even when the class of alleged victims have already been saved. The worst of us want to look like the best of us, and their grasping at a mass-manufactured dignity, the Gucci-knockoff brand of spiritual greatness, means that sufferers and martyrs are churned out en masse — each one less legitimate than the last.
Meanwhile, family businesses are torched. Neighborhoods are terrorized and destroyed. Real martyrs, people who were working hard and minding their own business, or policemen doing their jobs, or good men protecting their neighborhoods, are beat up, or put in jail, or murdered, or have their families doxxed — just because they don’t fit the victim du jour‘s profile. To empathize more radically is confused with having more empathy, but the fact is that you’ve merely shifted whom you empathize with — generally from people you should care about to people you shouldn’t.
This victim in reality, the guy who never caused any trouble, and many times the guy who stood up for the rest of us, is bulldozed without any empathy, without any backstory, without any pity. The fact is that every victim du jour needs a villain or you can’t be a hero; and that for every manufactured pity-party a lynch mob is set upon an innocent. The game has both a positive side and a negative. One man is raised up, and another man is cut down. Both sides of the story are never told by the “compassionate.” No rationale is given for the so-called “oppressor’s” behavior, no support for his family when he loses his job and gets thrown on the street, or into a prison. The so-called villain is a villain because that’s who he is. The so-called victim, a person with no personal dignity or talent — I would even say value — has a long, sad, and manufactured backstory, sometimes reaching back centuries. Empathy is a one-way street, these days, and the person who’s going the other way gets run over.
Is this the kind of society we want to live in?
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