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Well, they take the perspective that the "other team" is hurting the country, so hurting them helps the country. Almost all evil comes from the over-applicatio

Well, they take the perspective that the "other team" is hurting the country, so hurting them helps the country. Almost all evil comes from the over-application of morality. "My team is good, and their team is bad, and it is good to hurt bad people." The problem is that democracy depends on cooperation. If you insist on winning at all costs, the other side adopts your tactics and it becomes a no-holds barred power struggle. Democracy is in short a system where people can struggle for power without killing or unjustly imprisoning each other.

bellyfullofbac 5y ago
> Well, they take the perspective that the "other team" is hurting the country, so hurting them helps the country. It seems like the perspective gets taken to - as I write above - justify, after-the-fact, "why I've decided the same way my herd decided". There is a lot of grasping for easy answers ("Yeah, he must be being controlled by China, that's a good enough answer for me!") and cognitive dissonnace when challenged, that usually ends with people being angry so the challenger stops..
- asdfman123 5y ago
  When you view something as extremely morally important, you're willing to cross a lot of moral boundaries and make a lot of rationalizations. Full moral consistency is almost impossible: you're always balancing self-interests with other higher ideals, etc., and there's always some dissonance. This is just a more problematic example of people striking that kind of moral balance.