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The most religious people refuse personal profit and earnestly and honestly believe they are doing it for the "betterment of society". This is the logic that w
by mpyne 14y ago
The most religious people refuse personal profit and earnestly and honestly believe they are doing it for the "betterment of society".
This is the logic that was used to colonize (er, "civilize") the "savages" of Africa and the Pacific.
So no, I refuse to subscribe to the idea that because he felt that it was better for everybody that it was his job to force it on everyone else.
You know what else the American colonists did to the English, right? They tarred and feathered them, burned down their houses, and many other forms of not-quite "civil" protest. And they did this in response to far worse transgressions than "those JSTOR assholes make me go to a public library to read this peer-reviewed literature I wouldn't know what to do with".
- visarga 14y agoI agree with you, letting people think they can change society as they wish by civil disobedience might easily be destabilizing and a bad thing, yet, the opposite is also true. From time to time we need to protest, voting doesn't change shit.