@War_Dharma All right, thanks for your patience.
"With what purpose in mind?"
The term we've sometimes used is metapolitical translation, which is the process whereby metapolitics becomes politics.
O.J. Simpson was found not guilty of murdering a white woman because black jurors were sympathetic to Rodney King.
Years later, this juror showed no remorse.
@bouvard38829538 It feels like the real thing we're talking about is demystification and remystification or desacralization and resacrilization, in a period.
Not the Abrahamic tradition doing something so silly as a transformative singularity of reality.
@bouvard38829538 Did Adam just come out against imperative culture?
Obviously we're in agreement over truisms that injustice is injustice. But are you trying to say the chief executive can't be also judge?
@bouvard38829538 That's right in a way, but wouldn't all killing be eventually ritually understood?
Just War Theory, "I killed because I had to; I ended the madness, didn't start it."
@bouvard38829538 Kyle Rittenhouse killed two people. The boy may be all thumbs in his personal life, low assets by the time he's 50, but what expenses did he save the community?
Being a killer is a thankless task in a bourgeois era, but a penny saved is a penny earned.
This other political theorist I followed before you used to say the single most productive human act is killing another human.
Of course it's an (intentionally) provocative statement, and he just meant violent criminals, not good people, which obviously would be exactly destructive and not what you want.
It's a remarkable thing that a 2 cent bullet (or just a reused rope) can save a community from a lifetime of $250k damage, depending on how decadent and indulgent it is.
I hate to appear the classic Germanic chauvinist, but it seems much of why the world has gotten here is that comfort with killing and death that enough of us had but which is now vilified.
Maybe it's also why I sympathize with you Israelis. Killing savages? Sounds like a good idea.