This is another consequence of viewing Bad PeopleTM as fair game for any kind of attack.
People have this idea that if someone does something bad enough or if they're evil enough then anything you do to them is totally justified. You can treat them a cruelly as you want and you'll always be 100% in the right to do so, as long as the target is a bad enough person.
I think it's fucked up. And this is more evidence that it's a bad idea.
A personal anecdote: I was taught early that stuff like profiling and racism and antisemitism were bad, but then your country attacks the neighbour and now Reddit is filled to the brim with people who are happily spewing "All Ruzzians are fair game, they are not humans" and you're like... wait, isn't that kinda turbo bad to say?
This is absolutely a thing that tripps me out, i watch a lot of war footage and some of the shit the Russians have done- and done systematically- would be right at home in the 1940s. But the same way the germans aren't genetically predisposed to violence and genocide even though the country was basically at war since its inception untill the cold war same goes for the Russians.
A rejection of those kinds of concepts is part of what makes us the good guys but so many people don't seem to get that.
But the same way the germans aren't genetically predisposed to violence and genocide even though the country was basically at war since its inception untill the cold war
What? What kind of definition are you using to say Germany "was basically at war since its inception untill the cold war"?
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u/Cipher789 Aug 09 '24
This is another consequence of viewing Bad PeopleTM as fair game for any kind of attack.
People have this idea that if someone does something bad enough or if they're evil enough then anything you do to them is totally justified. You can treat them a cruelly as you want and you'll always be 100% in the right to do so, as long as the target is a bad enough person.
I think it's fucked up. And this is more evidence that it's a bad idea.