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> At the end of the day, a good person can't be convinced to engage in terrorism or violence of any kind This implies that only full pacifists can be good pers
by vintermann 3y ago
> At the end of the day, a good person can't be convinced to engage in terrorism or violence of any kind
This implies that only full pacifists can be good persons. Because for everyone else, there is a situation in which they will engage in violence, and all you have to do is fool them into thinking they're in that situation.
Instead of morally corrupting someone, all you have to do is fool them about what the facts are.
And that is a lot easier, and it's what the FBI in fact does. From police work, they know exactly the type who can be convinced to not only confess whatever you like, but come to believe it too. The world is full of people with little faith in their own perception, memory or understanding of reality, and they are not any more likely to be principled pacifists than anyone else.