Tucker Carlson
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It's the attitude that really is behind all mass slaughter in history, and we can't have it in the West, period.
So once you accept that, then you also have to acknowledge that
there are no permanent enemies.
That we disagree with people, we may violently disagree, passionately disagree.
I hate what you're saying, but we owe, and this is a Christian imperative as well, but also it's like a prerequisite for continuing to exist.
You have to acknowledge and say out loud that if people change, or if you change, because we all do change, and when we're under pressure, we change much more quickly.
All of us are changing right now.
It's imperceptible to us usually.
But keep a daily diary and look at it five years from now.
You're a different person.
You change.
And so do all the people around you.
And because that is true, some people will change for the worse.
Some people will change for the better.
We cannot have permanent enemies.
Period.
It's immoral to imagine that someone must always be your enemy.
He's an Amalekite or whatever.
That is immoral.
And it's also, by the way, cutting yourself off from one of life's greatest joys, which is finding common humanity with another person and deciding, wait a second, you know, I really dislike this person, but all of a sudden I'm seeing this person as a person whose concerns are not exactly the same as mine, but close enough.