I mostly care about the context mate. That's why I talk about material conditions and ethics so much. I don't think you understand just how much I care about the context.
And there is context in both situation. Me killing someone for a specific context doesn't mean that there is no context in a situation where a rando kills someone because they "rub them the wrong way". In reality, there are many contextual factor related to domination systems that can explain this action.
But to understand that, what you know as "context" must be extended, because the context in this situation is much bigger than the situation itself.
Oh, really? What If I told you that to save the entire humanity, you need to kill a racist supremacist ? Wouldn't you at least hesitate ?
You oppose an ethical action against an unethical one here. Why?
Of course killing in self defense is more justifiable than killing out of the blue. It's not even a question. The point that we are talking about here are unethical actions. And in the case of
unethical actions, we are ALL on the scale.
And there are many scales
When someone says "you are retarded", well they are creating an ableist climate, it's a form of violence against people like me. When they say "Trany", it's a form of cissexism, same for others forms of violences.
Nobody here is perfect, not even me, we are ALL on the scale, sometimes high, sometimes low, but we all participate in violence, simply because our system created this violence. People will be out of the scale the day there will be an education where these domination systems won't exist. But this day is nowhere near.
Saying "rapist or murderers or wife beaters are monsters" is the same as saying "they are on the scale, but not me".
Marxism*
Trotskyism, today, is too fuzy and confusionnistic to be a relevant label
So you did twisted my words, but to a reasonnable ammount this time
Ok. I take that back
Ok, so you are a racialized man that:
- Lived in a poor neighborhood
- Was constantly harassed by the police weekly
- Faced the consequences of systemic racism on a daily basis
And..
You became a cop. A weapon of this system
Well... yeah..
Indeed, I failed to take that possibility of this kind of behavior into account. Which is crazy since Fanon made a text specifically about it, something I mentionned clearly arond that time. Lucky mistake.