A 15-year-old student has had their hand blown off after picking up a stun grenade being used by police as mass school protests continue across France, local authorities said.
The incident comes as nearly 500 schools are expected to be completely or partially closed following student protests across the country over dilapidated schools and classrooms, overcrowding and teacher shortages preceding a nationwide day of demonstrations on Tuesday.
I only ever see that quote used by people with a ‘some of you may die but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make so my abstract ideology can rule the rubble’ attitude to politics. While I’ve no doubt sometimes revolutionary violence is justified (as in France’s ancien regime), political terrors never are and people who advocate them usually have the immense privilege of never having lived to see one. People who revel in violence are untrustworthy on a basic human level, even when violence is legitimately called for to preserve life and limb the absolute minimum amount that is effective should be used.
I have an extreme distrust of people who see others like Job’s wife and children; fair game to have killed brutally and without further note to serve the main character’s personal arc. They have no idea of the value of human life, and would spend it wantonly given half a chance.
how many people in your family have lived in active war zones?
Long story short, you are satisfied and not actively prosecuted by the system, so fuck the victims, status quo for the win.
Noted.