tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post2676211968030249263..comments2024-03-28T03:31:42.278-07:00Comments on Chiron: The OtherRoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08483616030072739190noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-10514882181598415002008-10-24T12:38:00.000-07:002008-10-24T12:38:00.000-07:00There's a post today at Megan McArdle's blog that ...There's a post today at <A HREF="http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/10/inner_demons.php#comments" REL="nofollow">Megan McArdle's blog</A> that is on point. Look at the linked articles, too.Kai Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13319136737099550784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-15085771313063198792008-10-23T21:29:00.000-07:002008-10-23T21:29:00.000-07:00I think the reviewer is someone who has never face...I think the reviewer is someone who has never faced real violence, or looked into the face of a true predator. I'm not talking about the 2 bit petty crook; I'm referring to the small subset of criminals who wouldn't think twice of killing someone for daring to ask them to change the channel or just being part of another gang.<BR/><BR/>You can't explain this difference to people. They either get it or they don't. And, for the most part, if they don't -- they won't, unless it slaps them in the face and makes them wake up. It's beyond words.<BR/><BR/>In reading Meditations on Violence, I never got the idea that you devalued the person of the predator. But to pretend that the are otherwise is like pretending a wolf isn't different from a German Shepherd...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-40591077921090874182008-10-23T14:43:00.000-07:002008-10-23T14:43:00.000-07:00Failure to understand and incorporate the necessit...Failure to understand and incorporate the necessity of othering people based on their actions has extremely poor outcomes. There's a price for being in the tribe: adherence to its standards of behavior. Failure to adhere is an attack on the tribal identity and justly punished. <BR/><BR/>Some people are threats to the very fabric of society; some are only threats to individual tribal members. In both cases they are "othering" themselves by their choice to prey on their fellows.Kai Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13319136737099550784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-20969657968402153642008-10-23T14:31:00.000-07:002008-10-23T14:31:00.000-07:00Dammit, wrote a long comment just now, but blogger...Dammit, wrote a long comment just now, but blogger decided to screw me over.<BR/>I tried posting it 4 times even, and yet it seems I failed.<BR/>Essentially, communication is important, even if you have no way of communicating, it is better to create one than to forget about the whole thing.<BR/>That how I understood this post at least.<BR/>Cheers for the brain food!Illogichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08988660947978523357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-1441927054911859362008-10-23T13:41:00.000-07:002008-10-23T13:41:00.000-07:00I see you as someone who has navigated the dialect...I see you as someone who has navigated the dialectic of "other-criminal" and "not-other-person" pretty well. Based on what you've written.<BR/><BR/>I don't think that, for example, someone would have said to you, "You gave me every opportunity to do things the easy way, and I turned them down" if you were wholly devoted to "other". <BR/><BR/>The question of how human beings can get so broken is of less immediacy to someone in law enforcement than the question of how to cope with such human beings. As it should be. But I remain curious about it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com