What is NOT helpful in discussions about rioting in {name the city in question}

[markpkessinger]

5. And you still don't get the point I am making

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. . . By the time we get to the point where riots such as these break out, we are WAY past the point of careful, deliberate planning and choices. Rational decision-making is no longer even relevant, because from where the rioters sit, if the world ever had any rationality in the first place, for them it long ago ceased to exist. Yes, you are right: riots probably hurt the very communities whose rage they are expressing. But to sit on the sidelines and lecture people about "misdirected" rage is not only pointless, it likely functions as an accelerant to that rage.