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I get the sense that you think that rioters are "just bad people" or something like that? Is that correct? They are genetically predisposed or something?

• Kalium 11y ago
  I don't think they are "just bad people". I think they're people behaving badly because they have deluded themselves into thinking that they can violence their way to justice. Some of them have their hearts in the right place, more or less, except for the whole "Yeah! Senseless violence!" thing. Others just like smashing things. I've also seen people get very upset when confronted with the links I showed you. It's a treasured article of faith in some circles that riots produce desirable social change.
  • mentat 11y ago
    The language of delusion is not really productive here. Almost everyone is delusional in one area or another. Wanting justice, needing (or "needing") to take action, and those actions being productive are all separate. People doing irrational non-productive things pretty much all the time. Expecting that to be different or change, especially with the current state of education is, I would say, delusional.
    • Kalium 11y ago
      What would be a preferred nomenclature? "Self-induced inconsistency with observed reality", perhaps. The delusion is not the goal. The delusion is the notion that violence will achieve the goal because said violence is emotionally satisfying.