As most people probably know now, someone attempted to assassinate Trump recently. In which he was grazed on the ear and the shooter was killed along with a few people in the audience that got hit instead of the initial target. I am currently neutral in all of this as I don't usually vote, nor participate in politics but this year is quite interesting and tense. Did he deserve to die? Or was it unnecessary?
Obviously from a moral political perspective, if you are a democrat (in the sense of believing in and wanting democracy) - or actually unless you’re someone who literally prefers an imperial authority or dictatorship where succession is determined by force - the answer here is ”no”.
I don’t support (in fact I hate) drunken-ass, racial-chameleon-ass, complete puppet of a candidate IE Kamala Harris, but I would NEVER ever wish for her death, or say that she deserves to die. I might be slightly amused and glad if she did, but I would definitely not accept it as a good thing overall, as it would be a failure of democracy. And I’m not even someone who really believes in democracy. I do recognize, however that it is the current system, and the system that most people say they want (until I see people like below)
You all can say I don’t have a dog in this fight as I don’t live in the US, but the US elections often affect some smaller countries more than the actual elections of those countries, and SOMETIMES in ways that are more severe than would affect people actually living in the US.
I don't care what happens to him as long as he never becomes President again. The man is completely unhinged by this point.
By saying this, or even thinking it, you’ve become someone why does not deserve democracy in any capacity. Obviously I don’t support some Psycho Pass style AI thought police to prevent you from ever voting or anything like that, but from a philosophical perspective you can’t ever demand or expect democracy as an individual ever again if you at any point held the position of “I wish my opponent in democracy would be killed because I don’t agree with his views“.
It’s truly tragic to see how much brainwashing has affected otherwise decent, intelligent people to the point that they would blindly axe one of the core pillars of their hemisphere’s culture and progress.
I hope you wake up to see that this type of moral inconsistency can only be formed within you by decades of external influence and meddling with your psychology.
It's not about what Trump deserves, or doesn't deserve. That's heaven/hell thinking - like it's about punishments or rewards for his behaviour.
I mean you didn’t create this thread so it’s not really up to you to say what it is or isn’t about. It is literally in the title and OP. You don’t need this mansplanation-tier condescension to be able to say what you really wanted to say.
It matters whether his death would prevent a great harm to people, cause more harm, or have no effect. Like however harmful you believed the Prime Minister of Australia is (just as an example), killing him would have very little effect, because the Deputy - who has similar values - would become PM immediately. In a case where a whole system is built around a single personality, it seems like the death would have more effect. But it's hard to predict. I assume it would also trigger riots and violence and stuff.
If you mean in the sense of, "is America fucked if Trump becomes president", like, yeah, probably, although it's already not doing so hot.
A much more reasonable take than
@Robert Ramsay had above. Sure, this makes sense when comparing a candidate to a sitting president. At the end of the day, the US also has VPs. But I digress, if you believe in and want democracy, you can’t let your personal view of the harmfulness of a candidate take away from the principle that the country deserves who most of the people say should be president.
It’s always so funny to see how democracy breaks down for people when there’s an opponent they hate enough. From both sides of the political spectrum. Y’all really are not as democratic, tolerant, intellectual as you think… are you?
