• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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        7 days ago

        No, he deserves to be rehabilitated in a facility that can reeducate him from his backwards beliefs.

        Unfortunately we are limited by our material conditions, so instead he gets hit with a baseball bat.

        • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
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          7 days ago

          Re-education camps are bad things even if you agree with what they’re “educating”

          You can’t apply dogma to someone by forcing it onto them. People have to come to realizations on their own. You can help them to that realization by doing a number of things that are ostensibly agnostic (offering critical thinking courses at the local library, encouraging people to learn how civics actually works, etc…)

          But you can’t just throw them in a “facility” and say “this is what we want you to believe and you’re going to sit there until you do.”

          You try your best to encourage them to your side. But if they don’t want to come, the best you can do is to mitigate the destruction their willful ignorance can do.

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          7 days ago

          On which grounds would you force someone like this into reduction… it’s easier to show them the direct consequences of their actions… everything else is futile with those amoebas.

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      7 days ago

      This guy was absolutely asking for it.

      Literally yes. It seems people are unfamiliar with this type of grift, which was made popular by the Westboro Baptist Church. Show up somewhere and say the most inflammatory (but not directly threatening) things possible until somebody gets fed up and assaults you, then sue that person for damages.