{"id":3061,"date":"2020-07-02T04:38:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T04:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/07\/02\/the-bookman-and-the-rifleman\/"},"modified":"2020-07-02T04:38:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T04:38:18","slug":"the-bookman-and-the-rifleman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/07\/02\/the-bookman-and-the-rifleman\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bookman and the Rifleman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">You know things are getting bad when a bookman must also be a rifleman if he intends to keep his private library safe from the depredations of leftist thugs who are out to &#39;de-colonize&#39; it. You cannot reach these evil-doers with arguments, for it is not the plane of reason that they inhabit; there are, however, other ways to each them. The gentle caress of sweet reason must sometimes give way to the hard fist of unreason.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">This raises an important moral question. Are there cultural artifacts so precious that violence against humans in their defense is justified?&#0160; I should think so. For those out to &#39;cancel&#39; high culture have no qualms about &#39;cancelling,&#39; i.e., murdering its creators.&#0160; That is one consideration. But also: haven&#39;t the barbarians forfeited their (normative) humanity to such an extent that they no longer deserve moral consideration? Do they form a moral community with us at all?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">I am just asking. Or is inquiry now <em>verboten<\/em>?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know things are getting bad when a bookman must also be a rifleman if he intends to keep his private library safe from the depredations of leftist thugs who are out to &#39;de-colonize&#39; it. You cannot reach these evil-doers with arguments, for it is not the plane of reason that they inhabit; there are, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/07\/02\/the-bookman-and-the-rifleman\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Bookman and the Rifleman&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,389,118,180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms","category-bibliophilia","category-culture-matters","category-decline-of-the-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061","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=3061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}