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This seems like a good solution to combat the rising tide of extremism in the West. You can't force anyone to do it, but I'm sure a lot of those people would do
by heartbeats 6y ago
This seems like a good solution to combat the rising tide of extremism in the West. You can't force anyone to do it, but I'm sure a lot of those people would do it voluntarily, to be allowed back into society so to speak.
- rch 6y agoSounds like the social pressure to smoke weed and binge watch the Gaia channel in Boulder.
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- yjftsjthsd-h 6y agoThat sounds like it's still coercion...
- kiliantics 6y agoWhile I agree, eating a psychedelic mushroom is really not as bad as a lot of the other stuff we are coerced into doing.
- heartbeats 6y agoNot really. Lots of people get in with bad crowds when they're young. If you have a bright kid with a promising future who's about to ruin it by getting into political extremism, isn't it better that he seek therapy?
- saagarjha 6y agoI think I would get into political extremism if someone tried to do this.
- heartbeats 6y agoWell, you wouldn't.
- oxymoran 6y agoWe could look to our ancestors and turn it into ritual. A rite of passage. We need something to hold us together, our modern culture is cold and devoid of meaning.
- movaps 6y agoThis is shockingly naive and biased. Forcibly changing a person's mind, their being, is arguably worse than physical violence. You'd have to be pretty creative to come up with something more dystopian than purging political enemies and religions via "voluntary" psychiatry.
- stevula 6y agoIf all the drug does is change your political beliefs, then yes I would agree. But what if it just gives you more empathy, which then causes you to support social programs, become less nationalistic, and adopt a more open mind towards drug policy? That would probably push you to the left but only incidentally as a result of increased empathy and drug tolerance.
- ByteJockey 6y agoI'm confused by this comment. The op explicitly said: > You can't force anyone to do it And your mind immediately went to: > Forcibly changing a person's mind Mind elaborating a bit?
- chrisco255 6y agoDid you read the last sentence about "being allowed back into society"? Ostracism for the purpose of social thought control is perverse, tyrannical, and disturbing on every level. I'm amazed at how OP could in one sentence complain about the rise of extremism and by the end of the paragraph prescribe an extreme form of human torture to solve it. I reckon people who reason like this probably think "extremism" is some concretely defined thing rather than a subjective thing that depends on the culture, the time, and the place.
- heartbeats 6y agoYou can't force people to hang out with extremists, so of course those people will be shunned. Are you suggesting we should make it a crime to not hang out with people who want you dead? If they're not allowed to improve, then how are they to rejoin society again? edit: wait, are you suggesting joining ISIS or the Aryan Brotherhood is just a subjective difference of opinion?