Christianity was a religion that started out small, with members hunted down and killed. And then it grew, and once it gained power it did a lot of hunting and killing of its own. Very often, persecuted underdogs end up being just as awful as the persecutors.
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'Powerless' and 'good person' are orthogonal.
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Can’t be virtuous if you’re incapable of violence
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Well of course if you attach yourself to a religion (or a cult or a political group, however large) then you give up part of your autonomy, and part of your moral core, to that group. If that group commands you to do 'bad' then you will, with the moral authority of the 'tribe'.
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There is some authority that one can start out being good but with power one loses the ability to empathize. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Somebody said that.
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When it comes to race, we need to all mix. Then people will always find a reason to oppress others disproportionately by size of eyes.
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How does powerlessness equate to being good? And what is good?
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it's interesting to me how many people in these replies are drawing a direct correlation between wealth and power whilst seldom bringing up the perceived correlation between poverty and crime
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"If you're harmless, you're not virtuous -- you're just harmless. You're like a rabbit; a rabbit isn't virtuous, it just can't do anything except get eaten. If you're a monster, and you don't act monstrously, then you're virtuous." - Jordan Peterson.
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