Evil Magic Markers
Email out to Billy, earlier this evening, after reading his latest, The Banality of Evil:
Some markers are *made* for smelling:
http://www.dickblick.com/zz212/15/How’s an 8-year-old to know which are good markers and which are bad? Why, by the decree of people bigger and stronger than he is, the same way “adults” know good drugs from bad.
Jesus.
Look: markers, and drugs, are matters of personal preference. There is no rational or moral justification for anyone to violently prevent another person from pursuing what makes them happy if that pursuit doesn’t demonstrably harm anyone else.
Even worse, far too many people are content to sit idly by while others claim to act on their behalf, violently preventing other people from pursuing what makes them happy even though that pursuit doesn’t demonstrably harm anyone else.
Worse still, the idlers will merrily enter a voting booth and lend scraps of legitimacy to the people who claim to act on everyone’s behalf.