• funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    If some members of a group are bad, all members are bad — does that mean you and I are both pedophiles for posting on Lemmy, which has had a large amount of CSAM posted to it?

    I live in America, I grew up in the UK, my family are Polish and German. So presumably by the same token that all Muslims are pedophiles — I love putting the Japanese in internment camps, and injecting black people with syphilis; I love running slave plantations, committing genocide, inventing concentration camps, using concentration camps, causing famines as an act of war, and I want to invade myself because I hate the Jews — of which I am arguably a ethnic member of depending on how you interpret genealogy.

    Doesn’t those arguments strike you as absurd?

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      1 year ago

      Your argument is flawed. Heritage cannot be chosen. Following a certain religion is a choice however.

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        1 year ago

        I think that’s also a flawed argument. I think culture, heritage, religion are more intertwined than you think.

        Assuming you’re American,l (but if not I’m sure you can extrapolate to a relevant example from your own country) isn’t celebrating Thanksgiving equally as morally bad? Genocide of the native people in the name of Puritan Christianity?

        And what of the “Holiday Season” — are you telling me you don’t celebrate Christmas or Hannukah?, because the moment you do aren’t you celebrating all the awful things that happen in those Holy Books, which if I recall is a lot of incest and rape too. Does celebrating Christmas make everyone a rapist?

        And yet all those are “choices”.