(June 19, 2012 at 4:53 pm)Adjusted Sanity Wrote: Better for credulous people to fall into this than scientology or traditional theism.
Sorry but "I am not like the others" cannot be given a pass either. Buddhist, for example, at least in the west often exalt the Dali Lama as a man of peace. The problem is when you look at the current number of Buddhists, not all of them are from Tibet nor are the all striving for democracy or pluralism. China's population has plenty of Buddhists. Japan has had a history of Buddhism, not all, but certainly old enough to be part of the fascism prior to WW2. Cambodia and many other countries in that region have a history of bloody conflict waged against and by Buddhists over thousands of years.
So the argument "at least they are not" ONLY means they don't have the numbers right now. When you look at evolution the evidence is obvious, the upstarts play martyr but when they get enough numbers, protecting the resources and alpha male states can and unfortunately will cause that power to justify harm to the outsider.
Which is why I get down on labels, even those minorities claim. There can be no virtue of the oppressed in a species that has always had the history of once the oppressed becomes the oppressor.
The only thing that can maintain civility is common law, not common labels.
