Comment by charcircuit
3 days ago
Fear. Fear can make people act irrationally and cloud one's understanding of the lawful actions taking place around them.
3 days ago
Fear. Fear can make people act irrationally and cloud one's understanding of the lawful actions taking place around them.
I guess anything is ok… as long as it’s ‘lawful’. No government would ever make an unjust law.
Lawful doesn’t mean right. Slavery was lawful.
Laws are not immutable. Slavery is an example of something that was lawful and then society added rules against it.
In US, the society didn't just "add rules against it". If you recall, the slavers first had to be beaten with a very big stick.
society literally had to break down for years in order for us to add rules against it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War
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and your point is?
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You realize that creating fear in the public, especially your political opposition (i.e. blue cities), using lawful or arguably-lawful means is absolutely a hallmark of fascism, correct?
I disagree. I think that is more of a hallmark of news media or influencer culture where irrational fears can be fanned and spread throughout a populace.