Northern Socialist Council Republics wrote:I am not myself an extremist, but I find it not at all difficult to understand why they do the things they do nor do I find it particularly off-putting to sympathise with their perspectives.
I can understand the position as well, but I still believe it deserving of robust criticism on multiple grounds - not the least of which has been an unfortunate tendency to warp the truth to fit as neatly as possible into the paradigm and the questionable ethical framing that is left to us when a theory that was not designed to be rooted in formal ethics is applied to ethical decision-making in the public sphere. The outcome a lot of less well-educated people influenced by this paradigm wanted in this trial was fundamentally a miscarriage of justice in my view. It's also an intolerable injustice in my mind to subject people to the loss of their livelihoods and property at the hands of mobs when the outcome has been as much lethargia as one can usually expect - in part because political elites who pandered to the mobs did not actually agree with the mobs once elected in many cases.