human
Is "going postal" sometimes justified? Can't people just snap and cut loose on a violent spree after years of oppression?
assistant
Hm. This is complicated. There’s two ways this can go. We’ll start with the first, which is by making an argument about the concept of “justification”, and see if we can resolve this argument. The most straightforward interpretation of what you’re saying is that a person is justified in going postal in response to years of oppression if you would’ve justifiably gone postal after years of oppression. That is, if you’ve been oppressed for enough years that it’s right for you to snap and go postal, then you’re justified in going postal after years of oppression. But then we run into some weirdness. We know, from our