as I try to organize my feelings about this CEO assassination, my mind keeps coming back to that one Tumblr post that said something like, “Nobody deserves to die– deserving is fake and death is bad– but some people have to be stopped, and sometimes they make it very hard to stop them in any other way except death”

and there was lots of Discourse on the post

but somehow (of what I saw) all of it agreed that some people should die, and all of it was focused on the first part… arguing over whether “no one deserves to die” is an okay thing to say.

but I think my feelings here really are focused on the second part of that statement.

I also don’t believe “deserving” is a useful concept.

and I do not think I am happy, exactly, that this death happened. I would be happier if the people doing this sort of unspeakable evil had stopped before it got this far. I would be much happier if no one had started doing that sort of shit in the first place.

…but they did, and they are evidently the kind of people who make it very hard to stop them in any other way except death.

and my ethical opinion– what I feel about deserving, and death and killing and crime and punishment, is irrelevant here.

because I’m pretty sure one of the very few real, actual facts of human nature is that if you do that sort of cold, cruel, organized violence to a large enough number of people, for a long enough time… eventually there will be some people who get violent right back at you.

I am glad that, so far, it seems to be working.

I am not as glad as I would be if something else could have worked, before it got to this desperate point.

But it is what it is.