The line between freedom and fear
Why I refuse to hold back my criticisms of bad systems
The culture of a time and place is far more potent than any other factor in shaping outcomes. In 2012, I worked as a police trainer in Afghanistan. In Kabul, we had to be hyper-aware of the consequences of our presence on the locals. One time someone threw away a piece of paper written in Dari. The next day a mob tried to storm our police compound because we had accidentally discarded some Islamic religious tract. We were called blasphemers and heretics, and the mob shouted that they would kill us. Had they successfully broken down the compound’s gates, they would have murdered us. That is how infidels deserve to end. That is intolerance of tolerance.
Intolerance of intolerance
My default position in life is to be intolerant of intolerance. Those who attempt to defend beliefs and cultures and nations that are intolerant of the other earn my utter intolerance. That is because they are a toxic danger t…
