KYLE NOT GUILTY
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I was describing those of bad faith. That was not my position.
Ok, so he could have thrown in some Quotation Marks in some chosen places....
So lets suggest that, instead of simply jumping all over the pede....
I see your point....
I use terms that are thrown around all the time, but in general, we fundamentally no longer understand them.
There are people that are good people who believe in this country and their laws, and do not see other citizens as enemies. These are people who act in good faith.
These people are legitimately shocked that said laws, enacted as originally intended, would allow someone like Kyle to be there with a gun, which results in two people dying, and Kyle is set free.
It makes no sense to them, because they have a fundamental change in value. That value is the value of life vs. property (the pursuit of happiness, as the founders wrote it).
To them, life is always of higher value from property. They do not all of a sudden want the country to burn, and for our institutions to be destroyed (those would be bad faith actors)
Like I said from the outset - this case was a litmus test for values. Not understanding of law. Legitimate people of good faith understand that Kyle followed the law, but they believe that justice did not occur because their value statement suggests that some punishment needed to be wrought to Kyle.
Why? Because, fundamentally, he defended firstly the community and property, which is what resulted in his needing to defend himself. To those people, Kyle needed to be punished.
After all, had he not been there to defend property, two more people would have been alive. And life is of a higher value than property to said people.
I figured that the narrative structure would have made it clear enough that it was a description of "one one hand, then another".
In general, nah, I wont edit it. I would need to rewrite the whole thing because the chosen narrative structure just was wrong.
Not for nothing, it was 100% upvoted until your comment came in, suggesting something entirely different from what I wrote. It wasn't the best narrative structure, my bad.
But the ultimate point is also that important, and that deep. I don't think many even have the frame of reference that I am coming from, because no one really talks about values in any meaningful context.
The word values are as deeply meaningful to an American as the phrase "as American as Apple Pie". It sounds wholesome, but lacks complete depth for those that didn't live in the era that the phrase was coined from.
You really need to rewrite what you wrote if you were as it appears going against the Canutz! Because your writ is not so the common of us would not interpret you as against Ritten house!
I will rewrite it if people care enough for what was said. But if it is just for clarification so I can jump on the "rah rah RITTENHOUSE" bandwagon, then I would be wasting my time.
The salient point is the meaning of the trial, not just that Rittenhouse won. This was a litmus test, and a teaching/framing point for where we are at in this country.
It is deeper than self-defense. It is deeper than law, and it directly connects to our fundamental understanding of life and liberty.
Justice was served, but, if anything, this trial is deep proof that this country cannot sustain itself. It is headed towards a divorce, and even the people who believe in this country and values barely has any idea how important this case was.
I reread your first comment. My point in saying to rewrite it was to articulate your very valued point of exactly how deep this goes but let you bring to the forefront of where the common man can understand where this begins to bring the original strength from the foundation we were founded upon because of laws like Roe vs Wade and other court cases brought cracks in what the most stable constitutions! We don’t need to rebuild but remove the crushing weight of lost common sense!
Two people died because for far to long the sheep have not occupied for Christ they went to sleep like Peter when asked to watch but for one hour! The greatest destruction to this country we elected without dissection of the political candidates TRUE values! And stepping forward from our soft self absorbed lives! Let me add Friend the two that their bodies died were long dead, spiritually dead, before the death of the bodies. This is why it is TIME we awaken ourselves not to the truth of what’s happening in the world but what is happening within each of us that allows that “this is where we are…fighting for truths we really want to live by and expectations of others doing the jobs that are morally corrupt…morally bankrupt!