16 Kasım 2015, Pazartesi
saat: 05:19
On Politicizing Paris:
If, after the terrorist horror in Paris, all you can think is how this “proves” that your pet idea, whether gun control, or anti-immigration, or whatever, is “right,” you are so far lost in your ideology you barely deserve to be acknowledged, much less discussed.
Free speech, and free association and free movement, however imperfect they are in practice, are both things to be defended and things that entail risk. These risks cannot be ended by excluding the world, or by killing everyone who disagrees with such values.
One demonstrates one’s values by living them. If you want to be free, live free. Neither the terrorists nor those who seek to use terrorist attacks to restrain freedom can win if free people don’t let them.
The backlash against Syrian refugees already underway will help to accelerate this process of alienation. Let’s not make a problem where none exists.
