"Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster."

[DemocratSinceBirth]

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" I have become what I have beheld and am convinced I have done right." - A paradox.

[mackdaddy]

1. " Don't step where the Bull Shits."

But wipe your shoes if you do.

[Jersey Devil]

2. "There ain't no Coup de Ville lying at the bottom of a Cracker Jack box"

Meatloaf

[edhopper]

10. Jim Steinman

Meatloaf was a Trumper who died because he wouldn't get the COVID vax.

[Jersey Devil]

13. Apologies to Steinman

I knew that but figured anyone else wouldn't get it unless I tied it to Meatloaf. Didn't know he was a Trumper or anti-vax though. Kind of gives me a sad.

[edhopper]

15. He said this shortly before he got Covid and died

"We're being controlled by everybody", he replied: "Yeah, I know. But not me. If I die, I die, but I'm not going to be controlled."

MAGAT idiot.

[niyad]

3. So, without complaint, we just willingly let the monsters destroy us?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. That's not what Elliott Ness did.

[edhopper]

11. Tried that

He was going to trial for Fraud, Nat Security Violations and inciting insurrection. It failed.
How would you suggest we fight these monsters?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

12. Ness would have dropped him off a building like he did in the movie.

[chia]

5. Someone has to battle the monsters.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. The Paradox of Tolerance.

Reminds me of the quote from Jesus Christ who said, " I send you out as sheep among wolves, be wise as serpents and harmless as doves." Very few moral codes prescribe that you can't defend yourself. I also don't think Nietzsche meant to suggest to just let people abuse you.

[niyad]

8. Then why post that quote, since that is exactly what it says?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. Because I posted its antidote directly under it.

And there's more to Nietzsche's philosophy than the quote.

[republianmushroom]

14. Not someone, but, everyone.

[Prairie Gates]

7. ...

"Philosophize with a hammer."

[Ping Tung]

16. Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people. Albert Camus