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Right down to the death?

My grandad was a Methodist minister so this doesn’t feel too controversial to me.

But the longer I’m around the more understanding I become of human shortcomings.
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hodlbod 2y ago

I think people have a hard time reconciling individual compassion with state-implemented justice. Our job is to love people, the state's job is to wield the sword.

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JeffG 2y ago

And you trust the state (any state) to do that well?

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hodlbod 2y ago

Trust, no, entrust, yes. I'm a minarchist, I think a state has to exist to wield force, because there's no way force can't exist (contra anarchists and libertarians). Justice is also the function of the state assigned by God per Romans 13.