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Originally Posted by dead_battery

ok. but trying to make them something other than this hasn't exactly worked out for us very well so far.

right but have you noticed how every time one society wants to exterminate another it has to paint them as "evil" and "animals"?

some sociopaths have no problem carving up people's insides for fun, but in order to recruit the bulk of the population into a genocidal frenzy you must dehumanize the enemy in their eyes-- untermensch, heathens, savages, barbarians, infidels, evil terrorists. and nothing objectifies like the "evil" label. you can put aside any qualms when it comes the time to destroy evil. it's so easy when the enemy is no longer a person.

what ever the fuck happened with friendly adversaries and worthy honorable enemies? they went the way of the 18th century i think. now every motherfucker and their fucked mother are most earnestly fighting evil. and "evildoers" are objects (not people) onto which we project everything we repress and hate about ourselves.