You KNOW he wanted to bomb the ship.

You just KNOW someone in some thankless job had to convince them not to bomb it.

And what we lose, we will deserve to have lost, for having given power to these anti-democratic extremists.

Shame on us.

But shame is not enough. We must fight this with our time, our treasure, our voices, and our votes.

#ABLeg
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The real world consequence of this is that we will lose the health professionals whose jobs have been made illegal, and we will lose the families of people who need that care.

People will leave, and they absolutely should, leaving us impoverished of everything they would have contributed.
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It is utterly disqualifying as a government to trample the rights of a minority in this way. But they are also doing it without a wide public mandate, to prevent risks that are exclusively in the heads of only their most extreme adherents.
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By using the card before it is challenged, they are admitting that they know it is not reasonable, and/or not proportional, and they don't care.

Effectively, they are going to have it their own way, fuck the rights of doctors, parents, and trans kids.

The law doesn't apply to us.
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The test in Canada without that clause is whether the law served a legitimate purpose, whether it is effective at serving that purpose, and whether it is minimally infringing of the charter rights. Which is why usually, you don't need a get out of constitution free card.
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So yeah, between the person who falls asleep, and the people who do nothing about it, the people who do nothing are way, WAY scarier.

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Trump surrounded by a cabinet of people who will not admit he is asleep is symbolic of the closest thing to true evil.

They also will not admit he is demented, that he is promoting and condoning atrocities, so they don't have to do anything.

Assuming they are not equally broken and care at all.
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Which is why "all that is required for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing" is wrong.

A less wrong version is "good people doing nothing is the closest thing that exists to actual evil."

Evil is a story we have been told to help us recognize when to DO something.

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But we less broken people do have the opportunity to choose how we react to the atrocious behavior of more broken people.

When we choose not to do anything to stop it, when we choose to pretend it isn't happening, or to put responsibility on the crowd, we are morally culpable for that.
5/

People don't choose to be broken. They don't get to pick their illnesses. They usually cannot be foreseen or avoided. So there can be no moral culpability merely for being the broken person who does the horrible things.
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What I learned doing that work, which I don't think most people believe, or appreciate the implications of, is that evil is not real.

There are no evil geniuses, because there is no evil.

Behaviours can be horrible, their consequences can be atrocious. People can't. People are just broken.
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Some were forced into treatment before they could commit crimes. Some heard voices that were more self deprecating than violent. Some of them were lucky with who they offended against.

But fundamentally, they were all sick people, divided for reasons outside their control between good and bad.
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Less

I'm a much bigger fan of rules being followed.

Zero shot that "incapacitated" is supposed to be determined by majority vote of the caucus.

I appreciate the willingness to act against bad leadership. But if you do a coup, because you need to, be honest.
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