It’s like using racial epithets to attach Bin Laden or Al Queda.

I have an exception here. I think in time of war, a uniformed soldier can choose to deface and demean their enemy with a racial epithet in order to cope with the consequences of war. I don’t condone the commission of war crimes or torture, but if a uniformed member of our military would like to call Jihadi, Hajis, I’m supportive.

I think what you’re trying to say is a sort of titration of the hate this site engenders and the basic humanity we try to connect to. I call or cribbed this from someone as a Monsters versus Humans debate. We demean the criminal and call them a Monster. We’re at war with Monsters who rape, mutilate, harass and kill.

We embrace the victim as our own, and castigate the “evil-doer” to the “red rover” side of monsters. There are folks who can honestly repent and come on back over, but this site rarely deals with those borderline cases. Baby rapers are universally despised, and that gives us all a common ground to stand on. Some of us argue and fence over specific degrees of guilt. There’s at least one case where the author may be wrong, because of bad information provided by someone else. That doesn’t hurt anything. Most here aren’t pressing Hell thinking that God is counting the tally and putting it in his book of life against the evil doer. Some who say no may think that it’s going in for them, but the site does not claim to have the power of damnation, merely the sentiment and consensus of those who read.

Bah, I’m making this too complicated. I imagine a barbican, a fort on one hill starring at the fort of the bad guys. This is a grouping effort to help identify the bad guys among us and also to remind folks of what bad really is. At the end of the day, the part that warms my heart most is when a victim shows up, thanks someone here, and moves on. That’s a good enough reason to forgive a lot of the shouts and anger, because even if some folks are waving a torch and pitchfork, they’re still on the side of that victim, and would use those tools to defend her.

I really like this site. I think we need more of this kind of thing.

At the same time, one of themes here is that evil isn’t the worst thing.. sometimes it’s the “indifference of good people” that is the worst crime that can be committed. Sometimes that refers to good people looking the other way at crimes, other times it refers to people being indifferent about the means to achieve a good end.

That’s what I’m getting at. If you hurt 100 good people to deface 1 bad person, then we aren’t really doing much good. It’s like using racial epithets to attach Bin Laden or Al Queda. Not all people from those nations or ethnicities are bad people. It’s those comments that fuel hate crimes, which I would argue account for more deaths, evil and property damage than all of the criminals outlined on this site.

But c’est la vie. To each his (or her) own.

The high road isn’t always the best road. I have learned this over time. I’m not here to be PC. IF someone needs PC, they’re on the wrong website.