“On one occasion, a handful of children, all about ages 5 to 8, were carried to the emergency room by their parents. All had single sniper shots to the head.”
How much of a shitty person do you have to be, to snipe little kids in the head?
That’s the point of ‘The Banality of Evil’ and the Milgram experiments.
There is nothing special or different about the Israelis, or for that matter the Nazis. They were normal people.
The only silver lining about the Milgram experiments is that they showed that if people were aware that the default nature of human beings was to follow orders, no matter how horrible, they would be inoculated, somewhat, to following those orders.
Please note, Israel is committing an unjustified horrible fucking genocide. None of this is an excuse for that. But you better recognize that there isn’t too much that differentiates you from those snipers, because if you don’t recognize that then you could be one of them in the future.
But you better recognize that there isn’t too much that differentiates you from those snipers
Hard disagree; the snipers, much like most of the IDF, despise Palestinians and don’t see them as humans. Saying it’s a problem of following orders blindly is like saying the KKK had a problem of people following orders blindly. During peaceful protests the IDF competed with who could shoot the most knees; this is not a following orders problem, it’s a nature of settler colonial society problem.
How much of a shitty person do you have to be, to snipe little kids in the head?
I’ve seen the frothing hatred Israelis express towards Palestinians; they’re taking the opportunity to take out all their hatreds and to play out all their sickest fantasies while they can. We’re seeing what the colonizers who genocided the Native Americans were doing and would have done with modern weapons. This isn’t a problem with individuals, it’s a settler colonial society problem.
If the influence of ideology is enough to convince you to snipe children in the head, you’re still a bad person. Weird take to be presented with children who were shot by a weapon that’s purpose built for accuracy and rush to defend the person that pulled the trigger.
Edit: grammar
“On one occasion, a handful of children, all about ages 5 to 8, were carried to the emergency room by their parents. All had single sniper shots to the head.”
How much of a shitty person do you have to be, to snipe little kids in the head?
That’s the point of ‘The Banality of Evil’ and the Milgram experiments.
There is nothing special or different about the Israelis, or for that matter the Nazis. They were normal people.
The only silver lining about the Milgram experiments is that they showed that if people were aware that the default nature of human beings was to follow orders, no matter how horrible, they would be inoculated, somewhat, to following those orders.
Please note, Israel is committing an unjustified horrible fucking genocide. None of this is an excuse for that. But you better recognize that there isn’t too much that differentiates you from those snipers, because if you don’t recognize that then you could be one of them in the future.
Hard disagree; the snipers, much like most of the IDF, despise Palestinians and don’t see them as humans. Saying it’s a problem of following orders blindly is like saying the KKK had a problem of people following orders blindly. During peaceful protests the IDF competed with who could shoot the most knees; this is not a following orders problem, it’s a nature of settler colonial society problem.
I’ve seen the frothing hatred Israelis express towards Palestinians; they’re taking the opportunity to take out all their hatreds and to play out all their sickest fantasies while they can. We’re seeing what the colonizers who genocided the Native Americans were doing and would have done with modern weapons. This isn’t a problem with individuals, it’s a settler colonial society problem.
Reminds of that interview with US drone-operators. “Cutting the grass before it grows tall”, “fun-sized terrorists”. Pure evil
Less a necessarily bad person, and more an ideologically influenced one, I’d wager. Sure, there’s probably a couple psychopaths mixed in too
What does ‘bad person’ even mean?
he asked rhetorically
If the influence of ideology is enough to convince you to snipe children in the head, you’re still a bad person. Weird take to be presented with children who were shot by a weapon that’s purpose built for accuracy and rush to defend the person that pulled the trigger. Edit: grammar
I don’t view the people here as defending those people so much as acknowledging some realities about our species