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Confessions of a Plague Rat

A teacher in exile and retired fighter writing about education and more

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  1. Issue · Aug 16, 2026

    Would You Kill to Protect Your Child? (opens the original)

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    Are you peaceful? Or are you harmless?A viral video asked mothers, “Would you kill for your children?”The responses from these well-dressed suburbanites were iffy and lukewarm, an indecision that could only exist in a relatively free and safe society. These women never had to consider the question. They have the luxury of ignorance to violence, having never taken to heart what it means to live so peacefully, taking for granted the gifts of modernity. How fragile our carefully crafted peace, impe

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