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RE: An example of someone who supports censorship and opposes civil rights
Excellent dissection. So much noise out there, like always, and so little substance behind the claims. It's funny really, seeing that the outwardly "most concerned" blatanly disregard their own rules forced on other people within their own behavior.
They are coming from an emotional and irrational place.
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions" is what I keep thinking...
that applies here, although when you examine their intentions closely you see that they are not that good.
No that is my point. their intentions are good! Or at least that's what they tell themselves. Justification and rationalization are at the core of ego awareness and misinformation society, and so everyone acts on his best knowledge trying to "make the world" into something.
I seriously doubt that these people get up in the morning feeling evil and glad to do some damage today. It seems more likely to me that they have fallen for artificial narratives that say things like "Once we are gun free in America, nobody will have to die anymore". Or "If we don't use these GMO technologies then overpopulation will make us experience food shortages".
Both ideas are stupid, but lots of people believe it.
My comment was originally inspired by the story of the witch hunts, where the "sinners" and "heathens" were burned alive just to have that tiny chance that they may finally repent, and accept jesus into their heart on their last breath - to be saved from eternal damnation and go to heaven after all... ya see?^^ All out of compassion ;)
It always seems to work like that...
Some of them recently feel it is virtuous to push gun control because they think gun owners are all racist evil white men and they want to punish them.