Quote of Day - So What Edition

Wednesday, May 4, 2011
"And while I'm apologizing, I'll bring up something I wrote a long time ago in reference to another topic: I have only a limited reservoir of outrage and indignation when it comes to the various injustices going on at any given moment around the world. The amount of concern that I'm willing to allow to claw at the inside of my brain and leave me in a state of apoplexy adds up to a kind of zero-sum game, and so I have to ration it. I'm sorry, but I just don't have the time or the inclination to worry about whether the rights of Osama bin Laden were respected by the guy who put a round from an M4 through his eye. I simply have better things to do with my life. Sure, maybe that's just my emotional side talking -- but you know something? So what?"

- Chez Pazienza, Deus Ex Malcontent

Um, yes. Just so. While I'm normally the first to champion the rule of law, in this particular case I'm saving my outrage for the victims of his evil - 85% of which, let's recall, were Muslim. Without question, the world's a better place as a result of the actions of SEAL Team Six, and I'll waste no tears on the likes of him.

2 comments:

Stacey said...

I can't agree more. He made his decisions and the result of those decisions was a bullet; it could have ended differently but it didn't. I wasn't there, I can't change it, I don't want to see the picture. Let's move on to changing systemic issues in the US like homelessness and marginalization.

Steve Buchheit said...

What's the quote, "Felonious, justifiable, and praiseworthy"? I think this one falls to the latter categories.