Brothers,
A little Masonic Instruction for you (thanks to the gentle assist from Martlet.)
I absolutely tolerate your views, even though I don't understand them.
Martlet does not tolerate the poster's views. His attacks upon the poster show that Martlet both resist and reject these views.
There are no posts here calling your views "un-Masonic", barbaric, etc.
Yes Brothers. This is true. Equally true are Martlet's put downs that indicate equally barbaric and unmasonic behavior.
It's those of you who call it "distasteful" to cheer at the removal of an evil murderer of innocents that show a lack of tolerance.
The spin that Martlet is putting on this, as in the choice of his words and his chosen directions, are misleading put downs designed to shame unnecessarily.
Again, if you can't see the difference, I really can't help you.
Brothers, this is a dismissal. The fact is, Martlet writes these Brothers off because they disagree with him. I see that they do indeed see the difference but it doesn't agree with his view, so he dismisses them.
Mourn his passing. I won't stop you. You'll get some odd looks if you do it on my base, though.
The inability to see another's prospective appears to be Martlet's shortcoming as well. Should posters dismiss him as he has dismissed them?
It's not a spin at all. If you don't celebrate his death, why wouldn't you mourn it? Is it just that you don't care that he's dead? If so, then what's the difference? Using your logic, it's just as bad to be indifferent.
Brothers, for Logic to have any validity, the premises must have sound foundations. Martlet's questions depict an either/or dualistic view. There is more here than his black and white approach.
I recognize we share a creator. What does that have to do with anything?
Shall I default here to using Martlet's dismissal of choice, "...if you can't see the difference, I really can't help you" as an adequate response to his question? If not, how shall we go about educating Martlet as to his inability to comprehend the connection?
He was a terrorist. The creator gave us free will. He chose to kill innocents. I celebrate the removal of a man when his death saves innocent life.
Martlet wants so much to be honored for his choice in this matter yet, he refuse to respect and honor those who experience sadness as a result of realizing that having to take actions to do this was because all other civil responses failed.
This refusal to give to others what one demands from others is called, "a double standard." It is also something that should be divested during a Mason's EA Work.
Weep for him. It matters not to me.
This is difficult to believe. The voracity of Martlet's responses tell everyone here otherwise.
Really? You don't see the difference between people celebrating justice brought to a genocidal mass murderer and people cheering at the murder of thousands of innocents?
Brothers, please observe that this is a set up question for the put down that follows.
If not, I think your perspective gene is missing.
Notice the put down that follows the set up statement. This is an excellent lesson in both Morality and Rhetoric. The Morality displayed is one of a double standard. Martlet has put our Brother down and accuses him of lacking prospective, yet does Martlet show this admirable trait in his responses?
I couldn't disagree more. I take great pleasure knowing he was brought to justice for his crimes against humanity, and is no longer able to plot the deaths of innocents.
Brothers, I do not believe schadenfreude is a Masonic Virtue.
Respectfully submitted to you my Brothers,
Bro. Coach N
