Thank you for the thoughtful and non-incendiary reply. It gave me some food for thought.

Quote Originally Posted by Bailey Guns View Post
Not gonna flame you, but...

OK...so things "could be run a whole lot cleaner". I don't know enough about the process to really agree or disagree so I don't have a problem with that. I do have a problem with, "I say good on 'im". Because it could be done cleaner that justifies this?

If that's the case, don't we have a moral responsibility to blow up the car that's driven by the chronic speeder thru the neighborhood that threatens our kids? Or the drug dealers...shouldn't we blow up the known drug houses? Or the guy who beats his wife and kids? Shouldn't they all be fair game to be "eliminated" and have their property destroyed?

The problem is, those are all bad analogies because the things those hypothetical people are doing are illegal. Fracking is legal, like it or not. It's not like an oil company sneaks into a "neighborhood" and does this on the sly.

My question is, when can I start to eliminate those that promote taking away our guns or otherwise restricting our Constitutional protections or just generally pissing me off with their progressive, bullshit policies? Cause I'd like to get started on that project right away.
My post was the product of some frustration over several things. Firstly, the do-gooders out there who want to be nannies to the whole world and think they can legislate us into their idea of a better life. These people blindly follow the myopic political dogma of the parties until certain topics become mutually exclusive and nonsensical policies result. Secondly, some wonderment at why the gas and oil industry insists on putting wells and facilities in such plain sight. Some oil fields give me visions of Mordor. They are their own worst enemy. Lastly, people like Mr. O'Conner, who likely hasn't been on an oil field and spends his time clicking through social media, looking at other people's reposts, getting his panties in an ever increasingly large wad until he has to spout off to a newspaper. Like most people he probably doesn't care where the energy that lights his house comes from as long as when he flicks the switch, the lights come on.

You're correct. Fracking is legal and many other things are not. Many violent acts are not. Used to be that the difference between legal/illegal or right/wrong were pretty evident and one could trust their moral compass to tell the two apart. I'm not advocating violence but I think if more SJWs were help accountable either by the legal system or the public at large, they'd be more careful about what they say/do.