I see lots of comments arguing about whether bad things should happen to bad people and missing the point that it's criticizing the convenient, self-serving rationalization of doing bad things to [out-group enemy] going on.
this post was submitted on 24 Jun 2026
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Everyone who doesn't support [insert group name here] or [insert cause here] is a NAZI
Oh for me, the literal nazis, child rapists, and Inmorally rich "leaders" are like dogs with rabies, a disease. There is no changing them. It is imparative that we stop them before they hurt more. If we can put down ol' yeller, we can kill this evil.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince us he exists.
I think the quote is
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist
That is the quote that I've heard. I wonder of they were trying to make a point by tweaking, although I'm not clear about what that would be
Momento.
Lemmy in a nutshell
actually , mostly facebook
(almost) Literally everyone inside and outside of social media. Everyone has a line for when they would murder someone, or at the very least think they deserve to die somehow. And almost everyone of those people would think they're still a good person while wishing death on someone.
The op seems like a clever sort of epiphany about how everyone's a hypocrite but it's not that deep.
I think social media allows people to post their first gut reaction faster than they can think. And I think the op is maybe referring to specific online bubbles that will extrapolate "I don't like dogs" into knowing that that person would be better off dead, but as it is I don't think this post says much in itself.
Everyone deserves to be treated exactly the way they treat others.
So be racist to racists. Throw homophobes on the street. Exploit the rich. And kill all Nazis.
And if they can't handle that, then that is on them. It is the most neutral view you can have of the world.
There's a line in The Republic that states something to the effect of "You cannot persuade someone who doesn't want to listen" at that point firing their own venom back at them is justified.
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
A system of fair rules does not always lead to fair outcomes, if the rules don't accommodate the asymmetry in capacity, motivation, resources, etc.
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." -Gandhi
So should we just tolerate the intolerant? Cause that's going to end well. We'd still have half a planet with stabbed eyes while they go scot free.
It turns out there are more than zero options between "do nothing" and "become what you hate". Many in fact.
It's a nice quote but doesn't really make sense. The eye for the second eye is the first eye, there's only two eyes involved, not a nonsensical endless chain of eyes. This concept of justice predates the quote.
Blatant flaw in this: I don't want to murder anyone. I don't want to rape anyone. I don't want to be racist to anyone (though I acknowledge I am). And the moment I would do something like that to anyone, I would be a murderer or a rapist, and that's a shitty thing to be. So no thanks.
It's just an endless line of good intentioned rapists.
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Tolerance paradox in action!
I remember being told it makes more sense when you realize it's a part of the social contract. Breaching it prevents you from taking part in it.
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right, but they have been proven to be demonstrably evil. Or are we now sympathetic to cancer? If they want to be treated like people they should start acting like it. Just because one is a pacifist, does not mean they shouldn't defend themself
Who is "they"? Who are you talking about and how are you certain that's who OP is talking about?
Fuck this noise. Kill Nazis and fascists.
Try them in court, convict, and then line them up with their families watching and shoot them in the face and make it required viewing for every kid on the planet.
So much for the tolerant left...
Motherfuckers, you labeled me as tolerant because I don't hate people for immutable characteristics they were born with. That doesn't mean I'm tolerant of nazis maga traitors.
Tolerance paradox is the only way forward. They deserve no quarter.
"So MuCh FoR tHe ToLeRaNt LeFt!!"
Pictured: Antifa social group, North Africa club, 1943, being as tolerant as they can
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And if they don't like this, there's always the super easily, highly convenient solution of NOT BEING A NAZI.
Exactly. A person can want every nazi dead and hope that nobody has to die while being completely logically and morally covered.
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I'll allow you to call me bad if I'm also allowed to drop billionaires, the trillionaire, selected world leaders, and most of the Epstein class in to a woodchipper. It only seems fair.
What is more important: considering yourself a good person, or materially benefiting the world?
I'll take option 2, thanks. Woodchippers! GET YOUR WOODCHIPPERS HERE!!
Quite a severe lack of intellectual rigour is going on there. If nothing happens to bad people then they'll keep being bad people. The difference between the bad people and the good people is that the bad people do bad things because they like it. Good people do bad things to stop bad people from being bad people doing bad things.
If you let the bad people do bad things because you're a good person and as a good person you don't do bad things then the bad things may as well be done by the good people. It's all the same.
This is intellectual rigor?
Light went after people in the prison system or suspected of being criminals, without ever doubting the justness of the system in any way. He is useful idiot, delusional agent of the system or megalomaniacal bootlicker. Choose your pick.
Also, just a plain old idiot. Imagine having the magical power to kill anyone undetected and you're like "hooray, I can go after local crooks!". Had Light ever seen a newspaper? Did he know the world outside his city existed? If you aren't starting with and primarily focusing on people globally known are you even trying?
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