I will admit it's hard to read recent news and not feel that the human race, and our planet, would be better off if TP were to shortly perish from natural or unnatural causes.
To watch someone casually sabotage civilization and progress, and in ways which will surely cost millions, if not tens or hundreds of millions, of lives (and hurt and ruin many more) - and to do so without any shred of decency or compassion - is really hard and makes me question my comfortable armchair morality. While I might never be okay with the state-sanctioned killing of a psychopath in prison, we are now looking at a psychopath who is loose and has enormous destructive power combined with a malignant hatred of people unlike himself and deep vengefulness towards anyone who questions or criticizes him.
So, TBH, I could see how the legal concept of "defense of others," could be applied here to someone who is a clear and present danger to, really, billions of people. For those who might want to rearrange their whole sympathy system for such a special case, I would say maybe there are times when it is better to be a horrible person and save many many people, than go to bed every night with your halo all nice and shiny. But I'm still hoping that peaceful demonstration, with larger and larger crowds in every city across America, could eventually lead to TP being deposed in a lawful way - IOW, political death instead of literal death.
But if that doesn't work, what are we Americans to do as we watch our country (and progress some of us personally have supported and worked towards) being smashed with the wrecking ball swung by a stunted and evil manchild? Sit meekly with our hands folded and congratulating ourselves on our enlightened attitudes?
