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A woman who mailed then-President Trump a threatening letter that contained ricin weeks before the 2020 election was sentenced to 262 months in prison on Thursday, the Department of Justice announced.
That first part, before “Wait no,” was the entirety of my initial comment. I was trying to be kind with what I thought was a correction.
And then I realized you actually meant that - that the ends justify the means. Which I firmly and wholly disagree with, for the reasons I explained above.
You are arguing with someone who by all outward appearances is psychotic.
I’m not even really arguing, per se. But when someone is so wrong about something as critically important as the concept of “ends justifying means,” I cannot let it stand without prompt and thorough comment. It is my civic duty to reply, if not for the person I am replying to, then for the passers-by who may be reading.
Totally fair.