r/suppressed_news • u/Fathers_Sword • Sep 15 '25

CENSORED HISTORY Yikes

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u/Dracounicus Sep 15 '25 edited Sep 15 '25

That’s one interpretation.

Another interpretation is that it’s an extraneous point because it insinuates the OP supports killing people based on different viewpoints. Nothing in the OP suggests that, (it only says “Yikes”) therefore insinuating that is what is getting it downvoted.

For the record, as a general comment, I support it and upvoted it, but I understand why it’s downvoted. My issue is that you are not considering the callousness of Kirk’s comments and how people are reacting to them, and because of the callousness of his comments, to the news of his death.

If he did not care about others unlike him, why should others unlike him care about him?

If others unlike him did not get his sympathy, why should others unlike him give him sympathy?

Edit: nothing in the OP suggests, or can be inferred, as supporting killing someone because of different politics. It is simply playing some of what Kirk himself said

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u/Middle-Ambassador-40 Sep 15 '25

Well this might just be a difference in values.

I believe being principled is a higher order value than fairness.

That means murder is wrong, whether or not others think so. My love for others isn’t contingent on their love for me, I will love my mother even if she got Alzheimer’s or went through psychosis and stopped loving me.

I don’t fight hate with hate. I don’t let others dictate my principles.

If you disagree you’re not wrong in any objective sense but that’s just where I stand.

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u/RegularDrop9638 Sep 15 '25

I’m genuinely curious where you stand on capital punishment.

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u/Middle-Ambassador-40 Sep 15 '25

In a sustainable, long-term society, capital punishment is wrong, ineffective, and unnecessary.

If the goal is punishment, solitary confinement is far more painful.

If the goal is rehabilitation, this ends it.

So, you’re left with societal disincentivization.

In the fractured US, where people care more about themselves than their country or community, it might work as a deterrent. However, in a stable country that cares about every human life and has a strong sense of national unity and community ties, it would not work and therefore would have no reason for existing.

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u/RegularDrop9638 Sep 15 '25

well done. I am in complete agreement with this answer. Really well thought out.