At This Distance, It's All Platitudes

so pick the one that isn't destroying your character

This whole newsletter is going to be an exercise in saying the obvious, so I’ll start by saying the incredibly obvious. Murdering civilians is bad. Murdering children is bad. (In fact all killing is bad, but some is unavoidable.) Killing in self-defense is justifiable, but rape is never justifiable, because it cannot be done in self-defense; you never h…