Reply #41: Good points, and I agree with most of them...but not with the idea that libs disdain revenge

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Libs have instead shifted the notion of revenge away from traditional offenders (criminals, e.g.) and more towards political opponents. That impulse seems to be growing stronger. I wonder if new communications technologies (especially the Internet) are an impetus.

The problem with any dogmatic system (and that includes leftist ideology as much as what the wingnuts practice) is that the drive to vilify and punish those who don't subscribe to one's particular dogma eventually proves irresistible. To put it another way, dogma corrupts our capacity for tolerance and replaces it with hatred.