@uc9
@TommyWiseau
Here is the terrible truth of human nature, I guarantee you that some SS officer at Auschwitz had the equivalent of a mug that said “world’s best dad!” on it.
The horrible truth of human nature is that while there may be individual complete and utter shit heels like Hitler, Stalin, Dahmer, the people who own cable companies, ect. by and large the worst crimes are committed by people who you really might like if you met them socially. I’m of the opinion that the blood, brutality and horror that fills human history is motivated not by people being bastards, but by ignorance, by lies and by the mentality of “you gotta do what you gotta do.”
It comes from people wanting a purpose, wanting to feel safe and wanting simple answers to complex questions. “We have shit luck” goes down a lot harder than “the jews, communists and gypsies fucked us.”
I also think its kind of pointless to compare atrocities to find out which is worst. Each and every one is visceral nightmare on a scale most of us can’t imagine, each one is a terror so absolute it beggars the imagination.
The key to peace is not an ideology, a leader or anything dramatic like that, the key to peace is recognizing that you really don’t have anything against others, and that you have no desire to see harm come to them. This is not a pacifistic idea either, when there is someone legitimately perpetrating evil, which is here defined as causing unnecessary pain to people who have done them no harm, then it is fully appropriate for us to respond in such a way as to render them no longer a threat to humanity.
To put it in a personal statement, while I may dislike religion I would never advocate it being banned, nor would I advocate that believers be oppressed or censored and if they were my ideals would force me to stand with them.
