Hey, since when is it bad to want to kill Nazis? Last I heard that was generally encouraged. It’s the whole moral foundation that the first person shooter genre was based on.
I don’t know, I’m principally against the death penalty. Don’t get me wrong, I won’t lose sleep if a nazi is granted an early exit, and it’s of course fine to kill nazis in video games since it’s not real. Also, I do like the revolutionary energy of those stickers, I understand where they’re coming from (the goal is to make nazis afraid and I’m all in on that!). Still, they advocate for stuff outside of my morality. I’m fine removing power from nazis, by force if necessary (usually is because they’re assholes who don’t give a crap about the social contract) but I don’t see killing anyone (or anything) as something to be desired, I can only agree with it when it’s a self-defense/survival type scenario. I guess one exception would be if it’s someone like Putin: well guarded, very difficult to apprehend, and kills people by the day for every day he’s not stopped, so it kind of makes it a self-defense/survival thing even if it would have to be planned in advance.
Murder sucks, but sometimes letting them continue is worse. If they remove other options for justice then justice must be served in whatever form is left.
I think for a lot of people, they’d normally be right there with you, and as you mentioned with self defense, the more people are pushed into survival-mode against someone hell-bent on destroying you, it starts to feel like destroying Nazis is the moral thing to do. Are you familiar with the Paradox of Tolerance? If you tolerate intolerance, it will take over society, so one could argue you must never tolerate intolerance. With Nazis being the real world embodiment of this paradox, extending that reasoning, the morally responsible thing to do is to destroy Nazis any time and place they spring up.
Oh, I like that one! Direct and to the point.
Hey, since when is it bad to want to kill Nazis? Last I heard that was generally encouraged. It’s the whole moral foundation that the first person shooter genre was based on.
I don’t know, I’m principally against the death penalty. Don’t get me wrong, I won’t lose sleep if a nazi is granted an early exit, and it’s of course fine to kill nazis in video games since it’s not real. Also, I do like the revolutionary energy of those stickers, I understand where they’re coming from (the goal is to make nazis afraid and I’m all in on that!). Still, they advocate for stuff outside of my morality. I’m fine removing power from nazis, by force if necessary (usually is because they’re assholes who don’t give a crap about the social contract) but I don’t see killing anyone (or anything) as something to be desired, I can only agree with it when it’s a self-defense/survival type scenario. I guess one exception would be if it’s someone like Putin: well guarded, very difficult to apprehend, and kills people by the day for every day he’s not stopped, so it kind of makes it a self-defense/survival thing even if it would have to be planned in advance.
Murder sucks, but sometimes letting them continue is worse. If they remove other options for justice then justice must be served in whatever form is left.
I think for a lot of people, they’d normally be right there with you, and as you mentioned with self defense, the more people are pushed into survival-mode against someone hell-bent on destroying you, it starts to feel like destroying Nazis is the moral thing to do. Are you familiar with the Paradox of Tolerance? If you tolerate intolerance, it will take over society, so one could argue you must never tolerate intolerance. With Nazis being the real world embodiment of this paradox, extending that reasoning, the morally responsible thing to do is to destroy Nazis any time and place they spring up.