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1:20am September 11, 2014

Umm…

It’s possible for people to be helped by something that is, generally, a bad and destructive thing, just because things are, in general, complicated.  This does not mean that people who condemn the thing as bad and destructive are condemning the fact that some people have managed to pry something constructive out of something that is, in general, bad and destructive.  I can think of dozens of examples of people I know (including me) who have gotten something good out of something that is, in general, quite a bad thing that ought to be condemned quite loudly and frequently.  (I don’t mean one something, I mean lots of somethings, varying by person.)  And I still can’t see what’s wrong with saying that the thing is, in general, quite a bad thing.  Just because bad things occasionally turn up good results doesn’t make them good things.  And just because bad things occasionally turn up good results, even life-altering or life-saving results, does not mean there is something wrong with people who condemn the things for being, in general, really really bad.  The world is complicated.  Live with it.