I think it can be both, but I don’t have the sense that something being a scissors statement means that one should automatically ignore the scissors statement and strike solely at the person making the statement. Scissors statement or not, if a law is grossly unjust, then resist it.
Scissor statements reveal pre-existing differences in values, they don’t create them. There really are people out there who have values that result in them doing terrible things.
Seems like you’re rejecting the idea that a “grossly unjust” law could be a scissors statement?
I think it can be both, but I don’t have the sense that something being a scissors statement means that one should automatically ignore the scissors statement and strike solely at the person making the statement. Scissors statement or not, if a law is grossly unjust, then resist it.
Scissor statements reveal pre-existing differences in values, they don’t create them. There really are people out there who have values that result in them doing terrible things.