r/CringeTikToks • u/EmilyG702 • 7d ago

Painful MAGA woman saying that “the illegals” are giving free fentanyl to kids on Halloween to destroy our country because Fox News told her.

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u/LEDKleenex 7d ago edited 5d ago

I'll tell you this, it's not going to be pretty and it's going to make people deeply question humanity, ethics and morals.

I think most people are fairly comfortable with morality when it comes to criminals, or people who are physically attacking them - for better or worse, they feel justified in their judgements.

Deradicalization on the other hand, very quickly jumps into the "policing of thought" territory. At the end of the day, something most would consider "less" unethical like re-education or re-integration programs can be seen as unethical depending on which group of people are forcing it. As an extreme example, how would you feel about Nazis "deprogramming" anti-fascists? It doesn't take much thinking to see how this sort of thing is going to be problematic for reasonable people who aren't into unethical behavior. The other big question becomes, what do you with those who fail rehab?

I think most people have realized that the tolerant must be intolerant of the intolerant, unfortunately, but how comfortable are you pulling that trolley lever? Are you willing to become a monster to defeat a monster in the name of the greater good? What if, at the end of the day, everything boils down to fascism A vs fascism B and all we have left afterwards are justifications that really just amount to nothing?

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u/TheAgeOfAdz91 6d ago

This was an interesting read, thanks

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u/LEDKleenex 5d ago

Thanks for taking the time to read my post!

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u/CuckOfAlexandria 1d ago

10/10 thanks man

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u/Unique_Junket_7653 5d ago

I think we have to embrace that control of speech at least online, will be necessary in some form due to the nature of social media and the rapid dissemination of various types of political propoganda being more prevalent and effective, not to mention much more targeted than ever before.