One of the worst Scott Pelley segments was when he featured Paul Ehrlich to warn that the planet was heading for extinction. This was in *2023.* Journalist Pelley never mentioned that Ehrlich had gone 0-for-30 in world-is-ending prediction racket over the previous 50 years.
This reasoning seems reasonable enough, and those who’d make the opposite decision probably also have reasonable reasons. Not really inclined to credit anyone who purports to have absolute moral certainty about such questions. That probably just means you’re a zealot
The disgrace was not the letter; in a profession as vast as healthcare, you can always find a few dozen wing nuts. It was the absence of a counter-letter, signed by a much-larger and sober set of professionals, disavowing this nonsense. From that absence one could reliably confirm no such sober set existed.
I was against it my whole life. A YouTube video from Gad Saad 99% convinced me but I couldn't take the last step; handing the power to take a life to the state.
However, after 7th Oct 2023, seeing what the greatest evil in the world looks like, realising that the world needed to be rid of Hamas, Hezbollah and their ilk, I accepted that the death penalty is not only necessary, but just and moral.
We in the west pretend all cultures are good, all religions are the different flavours of the same thing, that all people fundamentally want the same things we do. It is not true. There is good and evil in this world and it is the fight against evil that protects civil society. Britain is failing because it refuses to address the evil being done on her streets.
@Cernovich Tolkien understood this and wove it into the LOTR books. Wouldn't have been a "clean" ending for the movies, but he was right to include it.
@AFpost And yet, "smart guy" Paul remains oblivious to the obvious contradiction: if the people he maligns were as bad as he suggests, he would be rotting in a ditch or in a windowless cell getting ass raped .... and yet here he is.
@robbystarbuck For all his academic cred and pedigree, incl Princeton faculty & long-term NY Times editorialist -- even Nobel Prize -- Krugman has always struck me as a mean, bitter, envious, small-minded, thick headed person. Now in his dotage, he dreams of "purges." Such an awful little man.