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It’s the annual GLoPtober edition of the podcast and this month we have an especially eclectic list of topics:
- Were the Benghazi hearings a bust for the right?
- Is Trump’s super power that he’s impervious to all gaffes?
- Would you go back in time and kill the baby Hitler?
- Who’s the real villain in Star Wars, the Empire or the Jedi?
- And a mini review of the hit Broadway show Hamilton (the closing tune to this podcast is the show’s You’ll Be Back ).
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Part 2: Re John’s opinion about Ben Carson’s claim that he would’ve charged the shooter…
John claims that people who advocate fighting back in these situations are advocating that “the default position of humankind should be to do something heroic.” Then, he goes on to disprove the validity of that view via the definition of heroism as being the exception. An exception cannot be the default.
I think this is another straw man. Heroism is indeed exceptional and not to be expected as a norm. The idea of it may, occasionally, inspire heroism in a victim in the moment he’s fighting back. But the reason to fight back, for many, like me, who think about these situations ahead of time, in the comfort of our armchairs or at our keyboards, because we’d rather have planned our actions to the extent we can if we ever become such victims, is the down-to-Earth, practical one that, if we are threatened by a killer, and judge that we’re likely to be killed, the rational, right act is fighting back. Not heroic; sensible, practical, correct. If it’s likely we’re to be killed in such a situation, it simply makes no sense to sit there and take it.
A waste of Goldberg and Long’s unique talents ,unlistenable