Jordan Bassior Quote in another thread to me...

[daveon]

"Better to kill millions of terrorist sympathisers than free one terrorist."

It made me feel queezy and slight dirty, so I thought I'd share it.

 

Comments

[pmcray.livejournal.com]

I feel dirty just being on the same planet and belonging to the same species as someone who can think that, much less commit it to the prosperity on the internet.

And people wonder why I am depressed.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

He really ought to be more specific about which terrorists he means if he doesn't want to find himself advocating his own demise.

[autopope.livejournal.com]

It's just JoBa's shtick. He appears to have some kind of sociopathic personality disorder characterised by a lack of empathy. That, or he's the construct of an amazingly persistent long term troll.

[daveon.livejournal.com]

I think it's a shtick, but I blame James for making me aware of him on LJ. I thought by giving up on Newsgroups I'd be able to avoid it.

The empathy problem though... I suspect this is an actual issue with a significant chunk of people on the Libertarian side of US politics. There was a delightful video on the news yesterday of anti-"healthcare" reform types making fun of a sick counter demonstrator.

It makes me wonder about living here. Then I visit home and wonder about there too. *sigh*

[autopope.livejournal.com]

"Fuck you, I've got mine" is a constant subtext of the authoritarian right in the US. That, and they hate the poor.

Mind you, the UK is ... let's just say, I am continually re-evaluating our emigration options if certain current trends continue. (See also: Labour turning into neo-Stalinists and the BNP picking up the disgruntled working class voters.)

[chris-gerrib.livejournal.com]

Having wandered over to Jordan's site, he's got some like-minded readers.

[daveon.livejournal.com]

Birds of a feather and all that.

I suppose the challenge I have with Jordan and friends, and their fellow travelers over at Rand's site is the lack of empathy with anybody or anything really except their own personal gain.

As Charlie puts it "fuck you, I've got mine"...

I'm seeing this pop up all over the place with people finding nothing wrong with torture and imprisonment of people caught versus battlefield use of drones.

One of the problems, one of the many problems, I have with Jordan is he called for mass nuclear strikes on muslim civilian targets post 9-11... which suggests a moral compass pointing to wrong.

[chris-gerrib.livejournal.com]

I just got back from the barber shop, where I was subjected to Glen Beck telling me that Obama was going to nationalize Walgreens.

Maybe Glen and Jordan took the same logic classes? ;-)

[daveon.livejournal.com]

Is there a Libertarian training school somewhere in the Rockies? I think Rand and his core comment team of Carl, Karl and Ken went there too :)

[gaspodia.livejournal.com]

See, this is why slapping should never be banned.

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

That would have left quite a bit of the US a smoking hole in the days of the IRA...

[daveon.livejournal.com]

Well, Boston anyway... :)