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Friday, October 29, 2021

Righteousness + Force in America: The Trap of Righteous Activism Coupled with State Power

There are two ways of getting things done: persuasion or coercion. You either convince someone of the value of your ideas or you hold a (literal or metaphorical) gun to their head. The latter has been the norm throughout human history. Most of what we value about the contemporary West is a shift toward the former occurring over the last 250 years or so. 

However, there’s an important difference between the despotisms of old and coercive governments in the modern era: modern-day tyrants frame themselves as the righteous side in any conflict.
-WiscoDave

5 comments:

  1. Nonsense. Tyrants of every era have framed themselves as the righteous side. The definition of righteous may change, but evil is always masked by the claim to do good.

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  2. Yep, what anon said.

    Chutes Magoo

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  3. Utopia always leads to death camps - and that's a feature, not a bug.

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