MuskyMelon@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 hours agoIsraeli soldiers torture one-year-old Gaza child to force confessions from his fatherwww.aa.com.trexternal-linkmessage-square127fedilinkarrow-up1770arrow-down119file-text
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minus-squarepalordrolap@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·5 hours agoLook up the paradox of intolerance. This is an instance of it.
minus-squarefrongt@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 hours agoYou can be intolerant without dehumanizing.
minus-squarepalordrolap@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·2 hours agoAre you suggesting that people who torture children aren’t subhuman scum?
minus-squarestarman2112@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 hour agoThey are human. This kind of thinking is incredibly dangerous. “I’m a good person, and a good person wouldn’t do bad things, so nothing I do is bad” is exactly the kind of thinking that makes these IDF scumbags okay with murdering children
minus-squarefrongt@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 hours agoThat is, unfortunately, all too human. To deny it is to fall into the same trap.
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Look up the paradox of intolerance. This is an instance of it.
You can be intolerant without dehumanizing.
Are you suggesting that people who torture children aren’t subhuman scum?
They are human. This kind of thinking is incredibly dangerous. “I’m a good person, and a good person wouldn’t do bad things, so nothing I do is bad” is exactly the kind of thinking that makes these IDF scumbags okay with murdering children
That is, unfortunately, all too human. To deny it is to fall into the same trap.