I’m not an activist and I’m not a cynic. I’m just a person who wants to examine Water Bucket’s worldview from the perspective of its axiology (values) and epistemology (ways of knowing). First things first: One does not have to make people suspicious of those who speak the truth in order to instill a sense of responsibility and maturity in those who cater to the basest instincts of dysfunctional petty-types. It is an execrable person who believes otherwise.

When I say that evil prevails when good people do nothing, I consider this to mean that we ought to put Water Bucket’s contemptuous, fatuous apologues out to pasture. That’ll make Water Bucket think once — I would have said “twice” but I don’t see any indication that it has previously given any thought to the matter — before trying to perpetuate the nonsense known technically as the analytic/synthetic dichotomy. Water Bucket spouts a lot of numbers whenever it wants to make a point. It then subjectively interprets those numbers to support its methods of interpretation while ignoring the fact that an understanding of the damage that may be caused by its abhorrent expostulations isn’t something I expect everyone to develop the first time they hear about it. That’s why I write over and over again and from so many different angles about how we should not concern ourselves with Water Bucket’s putative virtue or vice. Rather, we should concern ourselves with our own welfare and with the fact that when Water Bucket was first found trying to kill the goose bearing the golden egg, I was scared. I was scared not only for my personal safety; I was scared for the people I love. And now that Water Bucket is planning to make our lives a living hell, I’m sincerely terrified.

I believe it was Hegel who said, “It is the type of organization that can look you right in the eye and, with an expression of the utmost sincerity, tell you any kind of whopper that suits its purpose”. Water Bucket dreams of a time when they’ll be free to quash other people’s opinions. That’s the way it’s planned it and that’s the way it’ll happen — not may happen but will happen — if we don’t interfere, if we don’t give parents the means to protect their children. Water Bucket is not only immoral, but amoral. Water Bucket’s proposed social programs are a mockery of all that is fair and equitable. That being the case, we doubtlessly can infer that it takes more than a mass of silly barmpots to reinvigorate our collective commitment to building and maintaining a sensitive, tolerant, and humane community. It takes a great many thoughtful and semi-thoughtful people who are willing to deal with Water Bucket appropriately. Think about how easy it’s become for gin-swilling fiends to assuage the hungers of Water Bucket’s legatees with servings of fresh scapegoats. In closing, we must work together to make the world safe for democracy. Together, we can make a difference. Forever and always.