RE: The fallacy of "The virtue of the oppressed"
January 28, 2015 at 3:20 pm
(This post was last modified: January 28, 2015 at 3:20 pm by Dystopia.)
Quote:Who is saying that? I am saying if we are going to get to maximize peace, we cannot turn our own suffering as some sort of patent. Our species has always displayed the ability of cruelty and compassion.Yes.
Quote:There are lagit people depending on location that have a right to bitch, then there are majorities that treat criticism and blasphemy as oppression when the reality is they are hiding behind issues of tradition and religion to allow themselves or others cover to do those horrible things.Who are these majorities? Christians in the US?
Quote:There are Jews and Muslims and Christians and Buddhists and atheists in the world that are harmed by those around them. The there are others who falsely play victim.
Who and how do we distinguish?
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
