Force as a governing philosophy, or stoning our problems to death

Just happened upon this article while researching something for class.

The moment a teenage girl was stoned to death for loving the wrong boy

Here's a more honest visual take on our governing fetish of choice, as of late.


See, this is how you use force. If we want health care, climate change, nuclear proliferation, child sexual abuse, or any of a number of issues resolved, this is the way to get it done. We're just a bunch of pussies, is the truth.

Or so the campfire talk among Al Queda operatives goes.

We need to decide.

Are we liberal because it makes us stronger? Or are we liberal because we're too big of pussies to be illiberal and finally stone all our problems to death?

Because if this is the way to get it done, we better go about getting it done and overwith and stop sucking our momma's teets.

Me, personally. I'm pretty clear this kind of thing is the coward's way out. And from its logic, most abuse of power follows. And that every one of those abuses of power are the consequence of our cowardice, not our courage.

Courage challenges this kind of logic.

Cowards let a girl like this girl die because they are too afraid to look at themselves and their use of aggression and its consequences and inhumanity honestly.

Because that's what cowards do. They bully their way through issues that they have no patience for thnking more seriously about and no compassion for someone other than themselves.

Our choice, fundamentally, is between courage and cowardice.

May we choose courage one day.