I used to adhere to a fanatic belief system and I have a deep sympathy for others caught up in them. And so, while I am happy to speak out strongly about how damaging those beliefs can be, I feel really uncomfortable when the people within them are mocked.
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Hopefully, the facts will steer many of them. Others will be lost inside their heads. Believing a fallacy, something you’ve been taught for as long as you can remember is a tough thing to let go of, much like “the Truman show” or “the matrix”.
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that's the stupidest thing I've read today ;-)
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Mocking ideas, if done well, can be an effective way to expose contradictions. Mocking their proponents is unfailingly counterproductive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2ybupRgffE …
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Great point. Difference of opinion is not personal division.
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I loved that last line “they’re not others, they’re us”
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Mocking people's beliefs is cruel particularly if it is out of a sense of superiority or correctness.Compassion can become patronizing and generate backlash. People using backward/repressive systems to constrain others should be fought against.
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You're the best
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I kind of see your point, but in many circumstances, such mockery is also an appropriate emotional response towards a previous display of social agression by said "Mind-Infected" individuals. I get your compassion for misguided fanatics, (1/2)
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I just think you shouldn't expect people for not to display their resentment towards these types, because good intentions or not, they are still very harmful to society. Mockery is a way to deal with that, too. (2/2)
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