What Goes Around, Comes Around...

Charlie Kirk gets himself murdered. And I use the active tense deliberately. He got himself murdered. At this juncture in the twenty-first century, are we completely surprised? Should he have been completely surprised that someone should take a pot-shot at him, given the foul bile that he peddled via the internet? If you put your head above the parapet spouting untruths and hate, shouldn't you realise, maybe even expect, that someone is going to take extreme umbrage at you and your views? This is the point: people like Kirk feed the hatred whilst thinking that their notion of 'free speech' gives them the God-given right to pass through this world without sanction. They feel themselves to be the chosen ones; invulnerable to both criticism and consequence for their views and actions, despite the harm that they themselves visit upon others without due thought. Unscrupulous, sans moral compass, and with an unassailable sense of 'mission', these people imagine that they are the true rulers of this world and that any that they consider to be 'other' to their twisted Weltanschauung are dispensable and therefore not worthy of consideration. Am I glad that this peddler of viciousness and hate has been killed in this way? A small part of me says yes; but in truth, I'm saddened that it should come to this in order to resolve what should have been, in any well-ordered society, a matter of debate. But then, I'm an idealist, and some would say a hopeless optimist. Nos da...