My “personal standards” are the only ones I can live by. Someone flips me off then I might return the favor. Someone pulls a gun on me - I pull mine and shoot first. But I don’t resort to violence simply because someone gives me the bird. Legal justification or not, if we don’t act civilized how do we expect anyone else to?
And I wouldn’t go to a BLM event carrying anything so don’t really care how they’d act.
I understand and agree with your personal standards, FRiend.
I am trying to draw a clear distinction between personal and legal standards, though. One’s personal standards can far exceed the legal standards without causing issues.
If we are going to save our republic, we absolutely MUST achieve the elimination of legal double standards. We should also strive to improve the personal standards of those on both sides of the aisle. But the existence of a higher legal standard for any group over another is tribalism, and it is poisonous to a republic based on minimally constrained liberty.