Sometimes, I see people saying that you can't compare lockdowns and vaccine mandates to genocide because one was evil and the other was a public health measure.
That's sort of absurd to say based on history. The entire Nazi society was based on disgust and purity, fear of and hatred of disease.
Nobody was more public health minded than the Nazis. At that time, Eugenics was a public health measure that was thought out to protect people. Racial purity was a public health measure. Propaganda directly tied the existence of the Jews to disease, so genocide was a public health measure. You might not agree with it, but join the club not everyone agrees with public health measures if they violate morals.
Eugenics was considered scientific consensus at the time and many people you might not think fully supported it. It is well established that Tommy Douglas, the father of Canadian universal healthcare, was a proponent of eugenics as an example.
This world is never so black and white that you can assume that because you're talking about something good that it is good. Turn off your brain and even the most benevolent things can be changed into something completely different
That's sort of absurd to say based on history. The entire Nazi society was based on disgust and purity, fear of and hatred of disease.
Nobody was more public health minded than the Nazis. At that time, Eugenics was a public health measure that was thought out to protect people. Racial purity was a public health measure. Propaganda directly tied the existence of the Jews to disease, so genocide was a public health measure. You might not agree with it, but join the club not everyone agrees with public health measures if they violate morals.
Eugenics was considered scientific consensus at the time and many people you might not think fully supported it. It is well established that Tommy Douglas, the father of Canadian universal healthcare, was a proponent of eugenics as an example.
This world is never so black and white that you can assume that because you're talking about something good that it is good. Turn off your brain and even the most benevolent things can be changed into something completely different
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I've always advocated that we keep using our brains. Learning history, it appears that the best way to be proud of yourself tomorrow is to use your brain and your heart today.
This world is never so black and white that you can assume that because you're talking about something good that it can't be quickly twisted into something evil. Literally anything can be twisted into pure evil if you shut off your brain and mindlessly follow it, especially since people who yearn power to do evil will assemble around things that are powerful and good.
There were people who, despite the world around them shutting off their minds, kept using theirs and become stories of heroism out of places like Nazi Germany. There are stories of people who decided to flee, or people who decided to help the designated enemies of society in the face of overwhelming pressure to conform, or people who tried to do the right thing despite being punished continually for it.
This world is never so black and white that you can assume that because you're talking about something good that it can't be quickly twisted into something evil. Literally anything can be twisted into pure evil if you shut off your brain and mindlessly follow it, especially since people who yearn power to do evil will assemble around things that are powerful and good.
There were people who, despite the world around them shutting off their minds, kept using theirs and become stories of heroism out of places like Nazi Germany. There are stories of people who decided to flee, or people who decided to help the designated enemies of society in the face of overwhelming pressure to conform, or people who tried to do the right thing despite being punished continually for it.
Good models of the world are how you make little changes that have a big impact on your life. The powers that be aren't wrong that misinformation and disinformation are bad. The thing they're lying about is who is disseminating it. They want you to build models that benefit them so you impact them instead of yourself positively.
That's a good point -- the establishment has used the label of "conspiracy theorist" to describe things that turned out to be completely true a *lot* in the past couple years.
To the point that I used to immediately trust sites like snopes, but lately their articles have titles like "No, Bill Clinton does not have a red bike", and article bodies like "While it is true that Bill Clinton does have a red bike,[...]"
They've really been burning a lot of goodwill.
To the point that I used to immediately trust sites like snopes, but lately their articles have titles like "No, Bill Clinton does not have a red bike", and article bodies like "While it is true that Bill Clinton does have a red bike,[...]"
They've really been burning a lot of goodwill.
I wonder what chatgpt would say if you asked it to write a fact check that says the opposite of what it claims to fact check?