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[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 60 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (33 children)

Sure. But you know they aren't as close as this makes it. One tool was meant to take life as the primary function. The other to get someplace.

Woman falls down stairs while carrying her baby, she killed him, accident. Woman throws her baby off the balcony, she killed him, murder. Both cases the baby was killed, both sad. But they are different.

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 10 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

TIL: the primary function of balconies is murder!

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Well unless you're Michael Jackson and just want to play Simba with the child, haha

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Or you’re Putin looking side-eyed at yet another traitorous regional governor!

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I don't admire their situation. Then again... I can't say I could have ever accepted some of the things they did to get there. If I had money in the bank to buy a place outside of any of the counties fighting to be super powers right now I'd do so. The U.S., Russia, U.K., China, and a few others just all seem to be toxic for lack of better terms right now.

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

One of the biggest life lessons I learned was from watching the show Breaking Bad. I think we all have a natural disgust / aversion to evil people. While it’s important as a social function for protecting communities from bad actors, it harms our ability to understand evil.

That’s the key. Understanding evil and how good people descend into it is the best way to protect ourselves from walking down that path. It starts with recognizing that bad circumstances and unaddressed feelings of resentment and perhaps a sense of entitlement all contribute to our ability to justify and rationalize our own actions internally.

Hitler couldn’t have carried out the Holocaust without the help of millions of German citizens who rationalized in exactly this way.

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