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Surprisingly, no.
Trivially, there are levels of armed conflict that would be acceptable and even laudatory. If New Yorkers could accept self-defense or defense-of-others by innocents against illegitimate threat to life and/or limb, we'd be in a much better place. Just as trivially, there are levels of endorsement I can give that are hundreds of miles short of what is not just common but already mainstreamed to the point of being room temperature; endorsing Rittenhouse is not going to give any genuine sanction to Jay Jones.
These aren't without their risks. There are definitely progressives willing to hallucinate that the knife-waving meth addict who broke into someone's house at midnight tots wasn't gonna hurt nobody, and that the police officer considering a speeding ticket was a dire threat to life; there are people who were already drooling over the shooting the children of political opponents now and did respond to the Rittenhouse defense by doubling down. But those are concerns in the same sense that a schizophrenic legitimizing a murder because the radio waves in his teeth told him it was okay, and sometimes by the same biochemical pathways.
At a deeper level, the Litany of Tarski wins. If you're arguing game theory and utilitarianism, it's not just enough to believe that pacifism is the best behavior with the best outcomes. Most advocates aren't even willing or able to pretend.
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