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or I HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT ANYTHING I SAY CAN AND WILL BE USED AGAINST ME IN A COURT OF LAW I HAVE THE RIGHT TO AN ATTORNEY IF I CANNOT AFFORD AN ATTORNEY ONE WILL BE PROVIDED FOR ME DO I UN

With these rights in mind, do you wish to speak to me?

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It is fucking evil how pervasive the modern taboos against violence are, and how schizophrenic they are, in both letter and action.

Millions of people’s day job is building, shipping, designing, testing, using, weapons of war whose only purpose is to induce death. Sometimes quickly, usually at least slightly humanely (as humane as one can be in imparting kilojoules to meat), but death nonetheless.
The people who will die have not wronged anyone involved in creating their death, outside of the person who hurried up and waited to dance with a stranger, and even then, it’s tangential and circumstantial. Nobody on either side goes “Okay, Jim in this humvee here, oh my god fuck that guy, fuck him specifically, hand me the detonator gotta time this just right.”
This is normal, and we all file our yearly taxes.

If someone rapes your child, and an appointed person tells you that actually they’re not all that sure if they did it or not, and well, sorry, have a good day,

that is the end.

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If you scowled, reading that, if something stirred within you, then you get it.

Isn’t it crazy how fucking innate that is?

Isn’t it crazy how well I have to dance here, to describe and verbalize this and not do it in the annoying and trite boilerplate way? The way that is Allowed and Safe.

The other option would be to be honest,

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Exhibit E, the web blog ‘probably not fiction dot com’, in which the defendant-

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which isn’t a sensible idea to anyone except the most incredibly naive of our grandparents. Crazy what people from the past believe about how the world works, eh?

But I speak instead of infestations. Come, join me, let us entirely beleaguere a metaphor.

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Evil persists because we do not fucking kill it.
Ruminate on this. Let it be your high magnesium essential oil bath salts (omg so good for you yasss).
We achieved apex dominance over this rock by goddamn fucking killing every single motherfucking animal that looked at us sideways. We permanently altered the gene line of several reputable and major animal species because they were cute, or friendly, or tasty.

We have conquered this motherfucking planet by not putting up with fucking bullshit.

Think about Jaws. This movie is a cultural touchstone for pretty much everyone born in the west before the 21st. A shark gets a taste for people. The people go “oh well that’s just not acceptable” and proceed to spend an hour and a half trying to kill a shark in its home territory.

At no point is “well let’s just not go there anymore” on the table. The closure of the beach is only ever discussed in terms of “until we sort this whole shark thing out”. It is inherent and unspoken that that shark is going to fucking die. Nobody even needs to verbalize or explain this logic, because it’s a default programming in humanity to the point of being like a smile- you just know it to be true. (Note, I have never actually seen Jaws)

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What remains then, and the canny already see this, is to discuss the times when humans willfully abdicate their own humanity.

Much like a cop taking off their badge, it’s a simple signal, that again is universally understood. You are choosing to step out from under your mother’s wing, and join us as a peer on the gravel of the playground.

I speak not of frivolities such as melanin, nonsense such as reproductive strategy or even such pissant tomfoolery as ideological allegiance.

I speak of the deep.

To see a hurt young mammal, or really any animal, human or otherwise, and not feel an instant compassion. To grieve the loss of your tribe. To pack bond freely with those in your life who treat you as pack. To smile at beauty. To seek comfort for those in your charge. These things and those like them are the immutable pillars of what it is to be Human.

We come to fraught times, and this is why I speak of these things.

Those who would put their Human badge down on the table, what differentiates them from the tiger, the bear, the shark?

Those who seek power over you, no matter the amount of power they have, are to be understood entirely as your enemies. Your world, and those who own and operate the systems we all live within, seek to rob you of your most fundamental and deepest truth:

HUMANS FUCKING DESTROY SHARKS THAT CLOSE BEACHES

That is how we got here. There’s always a non-zero chance satan or a sufficiently advanced alien deepfaked the entirety of everything a few days ago, but, muh bayesian reasoning, muh prior probabilities, muh unlikely black swan, on and on.

Get your fucking shit together, Human, your beach is in jeopardy.