Audre Lorde

“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.“

  • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 months ago

    People have value, people can also behave monsterously and it can be a good thing if they stop which can include dying.

    Human lives don’t have infinite value, that would be a position that would mean killing someone on a murderous rampage would be just as bad as letting them kill forever.

    Two things can be true:

    • people should not be killed because of who they are and lives should be spared where possible

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    • some people are harmful and it’s fine to want them to face some sort of consequences for that and/or die and stop being harmful.
    • LwL@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      There’s a difference between “it wouldn’t be so bad if they die” and “i hope they died in the worst way possible”. I think the former about quite a few people, but while there’s some fucked up part of me that delights in assholes getting what they deserve, I’m still not gonna celebrate someone going through torture.

      Tbh I just don’t think the people upvoting this meme are likely the same people, i constantly see comments on here dehumanizing people for having backwards-ass views on things, which would be perfectly in line with saying the genocide is okay because many of the people affected hold similar views.

      It’s obviously not, not just because that’s bound to not apply to everyone, but also because people can change and are a product of their environment.