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I believe there are objectively bad things to do and killing people for a false sacrifice is certainly bad. It's true that people need empathy, though, partly so they can be wary despite their own good intentions and clean consciences.
You never felt the pleasure of giving your life for someone ? for a group ? I did, very few times, but I did. I bet 10$ that their culture only amplified that feeling.
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I believe there are objectively bad things to do and killing people for a false sacrifice is certainly bad. It's true that people need empathy, though, partly so they can be wary despite their own good intentions and clean consciences.
You never felt the pleasure of giving your life for someone ? for a group ? I did, very few times, but I did. I bet 10$ that their culture only amplified that feeling.
We don't serve people well by simply putting ourselves in their shoes. That's certainly part of a mature response, but it's far from a complete answer.
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You never felt the pleasure of giving your life for someone ? for a group ? I did, very few times, but I did. I bet 10$ that their culture only amplified that feeling.
I'm confused why you think a lack of empathy on my part is the problem. Of course I can empathize with people doing horrible things with good intentions. It's all the more reason to be clear and definitive when drawing clear moral lines for everyone. So confusing feelings don't lead people to do horrible things. We don't serve people well by simply putting ourselves in their shoes. That's certainly part of a mature r…
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I agree that mitigates it somewhat, but the comment was still unsubstantive, no? It added no information.
Not even slightly. The definition of substantive: having a firm basis in reality and therefore important Quotes, citations, showing one's work are all inherently substantive. To take something seriously as Nazism in the context of a game like a puzzle to be solved, it's brilliant and absurd, and literary cleverness, and worth repeating as is. And this wedge fits within the timing of the article, itself wedged between…