(May 2, 2025 at 2:35 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: I think human nature is good. Trumpers are trying their level best to be their worst. Hurt people hurt people.
I just want to pull this apart a little. Why do you think human nature is good when we see so many examples throughout history of humans fucking one another over? I get your point that "hurt people hurt people" -- damaged people do damage, sure. But we also see plenty of instances of the collision of cultures where neither has had opportunity to do harm to either, yet they still go at it hammer and tongs. Just 'cause, apparently.
Who hurt the antisemites who eventually cooked up the ovens? They decided to slaughter European Jewry on the basis of ... what? What about the extermination of native Americans? Were the Europeans "hurt" by anything more than a barrier to expansion? Did aborigines in Austrailia do something wrong to earn a couple of centuries of being shitted on?
I think "hurt feelings" is a facile explanation that doesn't touch upon many older and less-political divides. Tribalism, expansionism, and a bad case of "I want what he's got" seems to be in play too.
