Yes. I never said to treat them like a rabid dog coming at you. (unless they are coming at you, of course)
Like I said, it’s about how you judge someone (such as a proper trial vs flippant execution) and on what criteria.
The main thrust of my point is: Policing language while there are people out there gleefully murdering children and rigging the economy so that more suffer for their gains is pathetic pedantry and only a practice of self-fellatio at best, and running interference for these despicable monsters at worst.
Some people do, in fact, deserve to be called absolute trash monsters for betraying humanity, and do, in fact, deserve to be treated differently. Permanent incarceration (if they are the irredeemable type) after due process is still treating someone differently.
Except it’s not pedantry. It’s an extremely serious issue. Dehumanization makes it easy to forget who the enemy truly is. It makes it easy to lose face, justify the ones you know as “one of the good ones”, just because you see they’re human. It makes it easy for that hatred to get redirected onto people who should not be part of your hatred by manipulative 3rd parties.
It’s not language policing, it’s an important thing to keep in mind so you do not become what you hate.
People need to see everyone is human so they don’t think the atrocities are only as such because they are the target(see Israel – I’m not saying that you should let people off for the horrors they do).
Yes. I never said to treat them like a rabid dog coming at you. (unless they are coming at you, of course)
Like I said, it’s about how you judge someone (such as a proper trial vs flippant execution) and on what criteria.
The main thrust of my point is: Policing language while there are people out there gleefully murdering children and rigging the economy so that more suffer for their gains is pathetic pedantry and only a practice of self-fellatio at best, and running interference for these despicable monsters at worst.
Some people do, in fact, deserve to be called absolute trash monsters for betraying humanity, and do, in fact, deserve to be treated differently. Permanent incarceration (if they are the irredeemable type) after due process is still treating someone differently.
Except it’s not pedantry. It’s an extremely serious issue. Dehumanization makes it easy to forget who the enemy truly is. It makes it easy to lose face, justify the ones you know as “one of the good ones”, just because you see they’re human. It makes it easy for that hatred to get redirected onto people who should not be part of your hatred by manipulative 3rd parties.
It’s not language policing, it’s an important thing to keep in mind so you do not become what you hate.
People need to see everyone is human so they don’t think the atrocities are only as such because they are the target(see Israel – I’m not saying that you should let people off for the horrors they do).
It’s only difficult if ones’ memory is as pathetic as a goldfish, forgetting who threw the first punch over what reasoning.
And people’s memories are. Hence, important
Yeah… Sadly I can only agree with that!