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[–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The common person is not, in fact, bad.

Then riddle me this: why are there many successful political parties based on harming others as their core principle?

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    Because charismatic bad people are very adept at convincing ignorant people that those "others" are, in fact, bad and we all need protection from them. In fact, I think nearly everyone is willing to sign up to harm people in some way - it's just defining who is bad that those political parties f' with.

    A minority of really bad people have an out-sized harm on society, and we haven't really figured out a way of preventing that.

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