Democracy is essentially always incompatible with a free society in the first place. Eating dinner with a Nazi isn’t helping Nazis seize power. You’ve probably met genuine sociopaths, people who want to kill or severely harm others. Should you pre-judge them? Is that actually useful for anything?
I know someone online who privately admitted to me to being a pedophile, and is very suicidal. They claim to have never victimized anyone, just thought about it. It makes me very uncomfortable. But I also think if I bluntly said that it would make them more self-destructive, feeling more isolated, and feeling more like they shouldn’t be honest. I think that would lead to them being more likely to victimize someone. This isn’t just a utilitarian calculus though, I genuinely do not want them to suffer. Even though they have disgusting thoughts that could manifest in the suffering of others. What would you do?
These things are not comparable. This person you spoke to has urges, not beliefs.
Political beliefs do not exist in a vacuum. Imo they always come from emotion and urges to some extent. Even the most reasoned utilitarian views- and especially Nazism.
He clearly doesn’t believe it’s right to want to fuck kids.
Alarmingly I don’t really know. Or if they just say that.
Nazism is a personal political view, and that view includes the belief that I don’t have the right to exist. That the people I love don’t have a right to exist.
Yes the view is wrong and bad. No one here is arguing with that.
and you have to accede it as reasonable to work with someone who believes it.
No you do not.
I’m sick and tired of people pretending like a Nazi will just up and abandon the monstrous core principles of their entire platform.
Many won’t. I guess the core of the disagreement is really “you have to accede it as reasonable to work with someone who believes it.” which I don’t agree with at all. Everyone I interact with and care about has beliefs I consider unreasonable and unethical to some extent, most not to the degree of Nazis- but some approaching it.
I guess to put it in an easy to digest sentence: Believing Nazi things is what makes someone a Nazi.
Yes this is something we agree on.
But we cannot allow “eh” to be the response to “those people who have done nothing wrong should die”.
The response isn’t “eh”. The response is disagreement. The response is also that its not my right or duty to police their beliefs. When they start manifesting the harm they believe in is when you should act. I can be friends with a murderer, who believes in, supports, and commits murder. I won’t enable them to murder. In fact I will disenable them. And I would kill them before allowing them to murder. That doesn’t stop me from associating with them outside of that.
The social contract has rules that say we can’t kill each other. Nazism does not respect that, so adherents of Nazism do not respect that, so they do not adhere to the social contract, thus they are not covered by it.
I absolutely hate the term social contract. But yes I agree killing people is very bad. And I think its good to kill someone to stop them killing others. But I also think that saying you want to kill others and believe in an ideology that advocate it is very different from acting on it. Most people support killing people that I don’t support killing. Like I don’t want to speak for you, but you seem to support killing someone I don’t support killing. But given that you’re on here you haven’t acted on it.
they’re not, a person’s views inform the way they act.
Yep, exactly. And that’s exactly thing. And when they act is when I act.
is the gas chambers, it’s the people making lists of of other people for Nazis to kill, it’s the public beatings and total lack of freedom and justice for all.
And those are all actions that I will fight against. Being a Nazi it of itself is not an action, and doesn’t necessitate those actions. I already talked about actions, you just ignored that paragraph other than the first two sentences.
Why? It accurately describes what society is.
Because a contract is a real thing in which explicitly defined parties of adults voluntarily consent to explicitly defined terms. The “social contract” is none of those things.
Democracy is essentially always incompatible with a free society in the first place. Eating dinner with a Nazi isn’t helping Nazis seize power. You’ve probably met genuine sociopaths, people who want to kill or severely harm others. Should you pre-judge them? Is that actually useful for anything?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q5DoYyV5RU
I know someone online who privately admitted to me to being a pedophile, and is very suicidal. They claim to have never victimized anyone, just thought about it. It makes me very uncomfortable. But I also think if I bluntly said that it would make them more self-destructive, feeling more isolated, and feeling more like they shouldn’t be honest. I think that would lead to them being more likely to victimize someone. This isn’t just a utilitarian calculus though, I genuinely do not want them to suffer. Even though they have disgusting thoughts that could manifest in the suffering of others. What would you do?
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Political beliefs do not exist in a vacuum. Imo they always come from emotion and urges to some extent. Even the most reasoned utilitarian views- and especially Nazism.
Alarmingly I don’t really know. Or if they just say that.
Yes the view is wrong and bad. No one here is arguing with that.
No you do not.
Many won’t. I guess the core of the disagreement is really “you have to accede it as reasonable to work with someone who believes it.” which I don’t agree with at all. Everyone I interact with and care about has beliefs I consider unreasonable and unethical to some extent, most not to the degree of Nazis- but some approaching it.
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Yes this is something we agree on.
The response isn’t “eh”. The response is disagreement. The response is also that its not my right or duty to police their beliefs. When they start manifesting the harm they believe in is when you should act. I can be friends with a murderer, who believes in, supports, and commits murder. I won’t enable them to murder. In fact I will disenable them. And I would kill them before allowing them to murder. That doesn’t stop me from associating with them outside of that.
I absolutely hate the term social contract. But yes I agree killing people is very bad. And I think its good to kill someone to stop them killing others. But I also think that saying you want to kill others and believe in an ideology that advocate it is very different from acting on it. Most people support killing people that I don’t support killing. Like I don’t want to speak for you, but you seem to support killing someone I don’t support killing. But given that you’re on here you haven’t acted on it.
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Yep, exactly. And that’s exactly thing. And when they act is when I act.
And those are all actions that I will fight against. Being a Nazi it of itself is not an action, and doesn’t necessitate those actions. I already talked about actions, you just ignored that paragraph other than the first two sentences.
Because a contract is a real thing in which explicitly defined parties of adults voluntarily consent to explicitly defined terms. The “social contract” is none of those things.