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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The common person is not, in fact, bad.

Then riddle me this: why are there many successful political parties based on harming others as their core principle?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Because charismatic bad people are very adept at convincing ignorant people that those "others" are, in fact, bad and we all need protection from them. In fact, I think nearly everyone is willing to sign up to harm people in some way - it's just defining who is bad that those political parties f' with.

    A minority of really bad people have an out-sized harm on society, and we haven't really figured out a way of preventing that.

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