Pretty sure this is a subset of the freedom vs liberty concept. Just cause you technically have the freedom to take an action doesn’t mean you have the social, mental, or economic liberty to act apon it.
Hell I know damned well I can act on my violent impulses but even for myself I would have to work myself into a state where my social conditioning wouldn’t be a factor anymore. Pretty damned hard to override mental restraints you’ve had built up since you were nine, though I can drop into it pretty fast it’d take either me being attacked or me needing to work myself into it before hand.
My point is most folks don’t really have the mental infrastructure required to just drop into violence on a whim, which IMO is nominally a good thing since at minimum it means most threats to oneself has been abstracted away.
90% of this thread: “nuh uh! I’m a good person and should be allowed to kill all those evil, bad cops and billionaire and nazis”
Also 90% of this thread: would piss their pants if given a gun and told to shoot another human being, no matter how evil they knew they were.
Can one be both? Do what needs to be done, while pissing my pants and wishing that it didn’t have to be me doing it?
I can barely shoot pests in my backyard. I don’t know if I could shoot a nazi or oppressor
the pests are innocent, which makes the choice hard for me. the evil people who are just clearly evil… idk how I’d react. and I hope to never know.
but I do hope that somebody else already knows.
Pretty sure this is a subset of the freedom vs liberty concept. Just cause you technically have the freedom to take an action doesn’t mean you have the social, mental, or economic liberty to act apon it.
Hell I know damned well I can act on my violent impulses but even for myself I would have to work myself into a state where my social conditioning wouldn’t be a factor anymore. Pretty damned hard to override mental restraints you’ve had built up since you were nine, though I can drop into it pretty fast it’d take either me being attacked or me needing to work myself into it before hand.
My point is most folks don’t really have the mental infrastructure required to just drop into violence on a whim, which IMO is nominally a good thing since at minimum it means most threats to oneself has been abstracted away.
happy to be in that 10%