MuskyMelon@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoIsraeli soldiers torture one-year-old Gaza child to force confessions from his fatherwww.aa.com.trexternal-linkmessage-square224fedilinkarrow-up11.09Karrow-down127file-text
arrow-up11.06Karrow-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 · 2 days agomessage-square224fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarefrongt@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·2 days agoYou can be intolerant without dehumanizing.
minus-squarepalordrolap@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down3·2 days agoAre you suggesting that people who torture children aren’t subhuman scum?
minus-squareMDCCCLV@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoIt’s completely human behavior traditionally
minus-squarestarman2112@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 days 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-up2arrow-down4·2 days 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-up6·2 days agoThat is, unfortunately, all too human. To deny it is to fall into the same trap.
You can be intolerant without dehumanizing.
Are you suggesting that people who torture children aren’t subhuman scum?
It’s completely human behavior traditionally
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.