{"id":13348,"date":"2025-09-24T16:24:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T23:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/?p=13348"},"modified":"2025-09-24T16:24:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T23:24:01","slug":"assassination-as-inadvertent-secular-canonization-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/09\/24\/assassination-as-inadvertent-secular-canonization-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Assassination as Inadvertent Secular Canonization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Redacted <em>Substack<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/williamfvallicella\/p\/assassination-as-inadvertent-secular?r=f3tzc&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true\">version<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Bear in mind that &#8216;redact&#8217; (v.t.) has more than one meaning in English.\u00a0 It can be used correctly, as I just used it, to mean: <em>revise<\/em>, although these days it is more commonly used to mean: <em>delete or remove (private or sensitive information).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The same goes for &#8216;retribution.&#8217; Although it can be correctly used to refer to revenge, it can also be correctly used to refer to retributive <em>justice<\/em>, which has nothing to do with revenge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Leftists fear Trump&#8217;s retribution, as well they might, given what they have done to him. And they are right to fear it in both senses, especially the second sense: the miscreants will be brought to justice for their crimes against him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Many of us will then succumb to schadenfreude.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Redacted Substack version. Bear in mind that &#8216;redact&#8217; (v.t.) has more than one meaning in English.\u00a0 It can be used correctly, as I just used it, to mean: revise, although these days it is more commonly used to mean: delete or remove (private or sensitive information). The same goes for &#8216;retribution.&#8217; Although it can be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/09\/24\/assassination-as-inadvertent-secular-canonization-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Assassination as Inadvertent Secular Canonization&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[885],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assassination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13349,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13348\/revisions\/13349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}