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by oleganza 4732 days ago
How exactly can I "fuck it up" if I simply refuse to participate in someone's schemes and refuse to violently intervene in anyone's affairs (unless I have no choice in self defense, but I don't justify violence in self defense - I tend to avoid being in such situation in the first place)?

How can peaceful (even ignorant) people fuck things up? Unless they pull the trigger, it's someone else who is to blame. E.g. one who pulls the trigger.

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You are just keeping your own hands clean, for appearances.
Could you please expand? Do I make a crime anywhere here? In legal framework or in the framework of your own ethics.
No guns or triggers are involved when they draft these laws or play these very critical decisions at an international legislative and economic level.

Guns don't sell guns.

You didn't answer my question. How I "fuck things up" exactly?

Laws don't kill, right. People do. I point out that people kill only because they believe that law is "good". I point out that assumption and highlight how dangerous it is.

Crimes of reasoning occur before any bullets are fired.