Beliefs can do primarily two things. Create a permission structure for all the horrible shit you want to do or constrain your actions so you comport in accordance with those beliefs.
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But the entire time, you know it’s wrong. That’s the basic point here.
aug 27, 2025, 1:05 am • 1 0 • view
No, I fully believe in the ability for a person to twist themselves into knots to believe that an evil is good for "reasons".
aug 27, 2025, 1:08 am • 0 0 • view
I don’t disagree that those people exist, but I’d argue that the few who truly believe that would be statistically insignificant. It would about the same percentage as the flat earthers who actually believe the earth is flat.
aug 27, 2025, 1:16 am • 0 0 • view
So, 100%? Nobody calls themselves a flat earther for teh lulz, those people sincerely think they're getting one over on the scientific community.
aug 27, 2025, 8:04 am • 0 0 • view
They absolutely do. They just want to belong to a club. They know the earth isn’t flat.
aug 27, 2025, 11:21 am • 0 0 • view
Man, you should see some documentaries where the flat earthers do some science and it unequivocally points to a curved earth and see how they react and justify themselves. People will believe some shit to belong in a group.
aug 27, 2025, 1:28 am • 2 0 • view
Maybe, but I think people enjoy doing admittedly evil things. Like Israel mocking starving and dying Palestinians. There's no way they think it's good, they just enjoy it.
aug 27, 2025, 1:13 am • 2 0 • view
I don't like the whole "maybe they had a belief that made it make sense", like ... the belief was they hated doing their own labor and hated Black people
aug 27, 2025, 1:11 am • 1 0 • view
The exploitation of outgroups are politely expressed in the belief of deficiencies of the outgroups that justifies that they are exploited or ,sometimes less politely, the belief in the virtues of the in group to exploit.
aug 27, 2025, 1:24 am • 0 0 • view
This how is how we conceptualize justifications to the innate monkey moral conflict of "be a dick if I can get an advantage" vs "don't be a dick because harmony with the group is beneficial"
aug 27, 2025, 1:24 am • 0 0 • view
Whether or not that belief is that people are better off enslaved or there is an underlying more honest belief that the strong have the inherent right to enslave is unimportant for outcomes and is more of a political issue than moral.
aug 27, 2025, 1:06 am • 0 0 • view
The belief was that it was wrong but they didn't care and who was gonna stop them, essentially. They didn't care about Black people enough to inconvenience themselves even a little. Much like today.
aug 27, 2025, 1:10 am • 2 0 • view