• merc@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    You may see them as hateful and cruel people, but that’s not how they see themselves. They would have to see themselves as cruel for cruelty to be the point. The fact that you think it’s the point means that you’re unwilling or unable to actually understand their point of view.

    You may disagree with it, but it’s not about “cruelty”, and pretending it is just shows your personal limitations.

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      1 year ago

      If course they don’t see themselves as hateful. But they have no qualms about using cruelty to enforce their idea of the proper social order. If you want to be very literal, the cruelty is the means to an end and not an end in itself, but when they use cruelty as a first resort to enforce rules to designed to keep undesirable people in their place, I see it as a distinction without a difference.

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        1 year ago

        But they have no qualms about using cruelty to enforce their idea

        So, you agree that cruelty isn’t the point?