RE: Meaningful ideas and quotes
July 15, 2017 at 3:01 pm
(This post was last modified: July 15, 2017 at 3:02 pm by bennyboy.)
(July 15, 2017 at 9:33 am)Astonished Wrote:(December 4, 2016 at 7:14 pm)bennyboy Wrote: I wish this were true of more than 10% of the American population, but I worry it may not be. I think the reality is that if/when the Muslims are "dealt with," a tradition will have been established which will allow the guvmint to pick out whatever group it wants, demonize it, and watch the general population police and remove it for them." First muslims, then Mexicans, then anyone brown or black, then probably the Jews again. And all along, they'll do it on the basis that these subcultures are trying to "limit our freedoms," even though at worst they are just fighting to protect their own.
Problem is you can't trust groups that base their entire worldview around something completely irrational not to try and pull the same shit. If it was possible to reason with them then hey, brilliant. The problem is, it's not. And that's their own fucking fault.
I think about this a lot. I'm not so sure it IS their fault. You can say so, in the same way that we say it's a criminal's fault for being a criminal, or how it's a sexual pervert's fault for being perverted. The problem though isn't that a bunch of individuals have happened to go wrong-- it's that humanity obviously has ingrained in it the capacity for shitty shitness.
From the perspective of the rest of us, it seems like these racist, bigoted fucks are just a cancer. But this is clearly not a freak incident-- it's an evolved trait. And just like so many of us end up massively overweight because we serve our instinct for eating, or end up in a pool of our own jizz every day because our brains think internet porn is sexual contact, bigotry seems to be an instinct with a reward system that leads us to bad places-- by excluding someone else, you get a flush of pleasure that says you belong, and that temporary relief from the social fears of our primate brains has a much more direct connection to the soul than our sense of fairness.