{"id":1465,"date":"2011-06-19T13:19:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T20:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suenelsonbuckley.ca\/blog\/?p=1465"},"modified":"2011-06-18T13:20:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T20:20:02","slug":"distruction-is-the-lazy-mans-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/suenelsonbuckley.ca\/blog\/2011\/06\/19\/distruction-is-the-lazy-mans-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Distruction is the Lazy Man&#8217;s Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t just about the recent riots in Vancouver, it a general observation. Although, the riots prompted me to talk about it. <\/p>\n<p>Have you ever noticed how the destructive folks cite a noble cause to justify their actions. Violence to combat homelessness, computer viruses to bring down Microsoft &#8211; the list goes on.<\/p>\n<p>To me these are lazy solutions. <\/p>\n<p>You want to stop homelessness, devote your energy to helping. Don&#8217;t cause even more money to be spent on the thing you hate (like the Olympics) which only diverts funds away from the cause you&#8217;re supposed to be championing. <\/p>\n<p>You hate Microsoft and want to take it down, then build a better system and make it free. Kill their money flow and they&#8217;ll disappear. <\/p>\n<p>I saw a saying etched into one of my desk chairs back at university that has stuck with me over the years, &#8220;Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For those truly committed to their causes, maybe it&#8217;s time to rethink strategies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever noticed how the destructive folks cite a noble cause to justify their actions. Violence to combat homelessness, computer viruses to bring down Microsoft &#8211; the list goes on. To me these are lazy solutions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-randommusings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/suenelsonbuckley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/suenelsonbuckley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/suenelsonbuckley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suenelsonbuckley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suenelsonbuckley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1465"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/suenelsonbuckley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1494,"href":"https:\/\/suenelsonbuckley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions\/1494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/suenelsonbuckley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suenelsonbuckley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suenelsonbuckley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}