Reply #34: Funny thing, violence. [View All]

[Callisto32]

I ABHOR violence. Causing harm to others and their property is utterly reprehensible to me. Ergo, I am a libertarian.

However, I am part of the gun culture. At first, this may seem a contradiction, but I do not think it is.

As callous as it may sound, I strive to be the most dangerous person in the room, precisely because I dislike violence so much. I believe that we are all better off when the people with the greatest capacity for violence are the least likely to use it, and the people who would like to be violent know it.

In a perfect world, we would not need sheepdogs, until then I hope our sheepdogs are stronger and smarter than our wolves.