If the influence of ideology is enough to convince you to snipe children in the head, you're still a bad person. Weird take to be presented with children who were shot by a weapon that's purpose built for accuracy and rush to defend the person that pulled the trigger. Edit: grammar

[–] DaDragon@kbin.social 6 points 8 months ago

It’s the same way I can’t completely blame Hamas fighters for everything they did on them being bad people, either.

It’s a way of acknowledging that the difference between me/you and them is not their actions themselves, but primarily their targets.

It’s why simply removing the ‘problematic’ individuals on either side can’t fix anything, and we should keep that in mind lest nothing can change.

[–] speck@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago

I don't view the people here as defending those people so much as acknowledging some realities about our species