Quote Originally Posted by JohnnyDrama View Post
I say good on'im. As I am a fan on Edward Abbey and liked the "Monkey Wrench Gang" book, I think if more green enviroweenies put a little skin in the game (so to speak) we, as a society, would be a lot more cognizant of how we conducted out day-to-day lives. To start with, I reckon we'd be much less inclined to send such letters to a newspaper or be as flippant about violence. I also believe we'd be much more energy efficient. I'm not saying this lightly, much of my work over the last 15 years has been in spent energy extraction/development and I spent close to a year in the Williston Basin. I don't believe the enviros are correct, but I'm pretty sure things could be run a whole lot cleaner.

Flame on.
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 the oil and gas industry puts fracking wells in our neighborhoods, threatening our lives and our children's lives, then don't we have a moral responsibility to blow up wells and eliminate fracking and workers?
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.