MuskyMelon@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 hours agoIsraeli soldiers torture one-year-old Gaza child to force confessions from his fatherwww.aa.com.trexternal-linkmessage-square144linkfedilinkarrow-up1861arrow-down118file-text
arrow-up1843arrow-down1external-linkIsraeli soldiers torture one-year-old Gaza child to force confessions from his fatherwww.aa.com.trMuskyMelon@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 hours agomessage-square144linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarepalordrolap@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·7 hours agoAre you suggesting that people who torture children aren’t subhuman scum?
minus-squarestarman2112@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 hours agoThey are human. This kind of thinking is incredibly dangerous. “I’m a good person, and a good person wouldn’t do bad things, so nothing I do is bad” is exactly the kind of thinking that makes these IDF scumbags okay with murdering children
minus-squarepalordrolap@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 hours agoSo what you’re saying is that I’m falling victim to a No True Scotsman fallacy. I guess I’ll have to go away and think about that.
minus-squarefrongt@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 hours agoThat is, unfortunately, all too human. To deny it is to fall into the same trap.
Are you suggesting that people who torture children aren’t subhuman scum?
They are human. This kind of thinking is incredibly dangerous. “I’m a good person, and a good person wouldn’t do bad things, so nothing I do is bad” is exactly the kind of thinking that makes these IDF scumbags okay with murdering children
So what you’re saying is that I’m falling victim to a No True Scotsman fallacy.
I guess I’ll have to go away and think about that.
That is, unfortunately, all too human. To deny it is to fall into the same trap.