"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities" - Voltaire. Can you think of any examples?

[Lliam]

A few examples might be:
Support for covid mandates and forced jabs.
Support for medical "gender transitioning" of children.
Support for the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.
Support for disarming honest American citizens.
Support for defunding police.
Support for measures to eliminate CO2 from the atmosphere.
Support for censorship and 24/7 monitoring of citizens.
Support for the WEF agenda.

There are endless more beliefs that lead to or justify atrocities.

What about you?

[slatyb]

Forcing a woman to give birth to a non-viable fetus.

[Grond21]

Silence is violence

[Lliam]

I don't understand the connection to atrocities. Can you expand on your thought?

[Grond21]

Because if any silence (or lack of support, for that is what it really means) is now classified as violence. Which, of course, means we have escalated from talking to fighting.
And thus, when you make someone believe your idiology and this is part of it, anyone who does not support you is automatically doing violence to you. And therefore is open to any violence in return. After all, you're the good guys and they are the bad guys.

[Lliam]

Excellent point, Grond21.

[Grond21]

Thank you, and thanks for the MHO

[Sabretooth]

Trump is a good one... And I'm not just talking about Jan 6th. One Trump supporter got so unhinged that he nearly butchered his whole family: www.google.com/.../rcna47701 . One murdered his wife to vote for Trump in her name: www.google.com/.../story%3fid=77692708 . A couple who voted for Biden shot: www.google.com/.../...er-texas-b1919921.html%3famp . And I just found out about this one: www.google.com/.../family-found-dead-suicide-pact-were-hell-bent-trump-winning-2023-2%3famp

[lightbulb27]

There's "defunding the police".

There will eventually be "why carryaround a phone" when you can have it installed in your newborn at no cost.

Apparently history has had these issues before... history repeats... and it doesn't look good.

[exitseven]

Support for giving preference to a particular segment of the population and actively punish others.

[Sevenpointfive]

usually anything on the news about the government.

[jshm2]

Yeah well, Voltaire was a racist anti-Semite and that quote is taken out of context.

[Lliam]

It's so in vogue to call all white people racist and antisemitic these days.