In general I think there has been a miscommunication.
I’m assuming so, because that’s the argument I’m making. being a victim of propaganda doesn’t absolve you of guilt for violent acts. you have to choose to do that. nobody is holding a gun to the heads of the IDF soldiers and telling them to rape prisoners. they chose to do that without urging. did the propaganda make them decide the people they were hurting were subhuman? yeah, maybe. but a normal person doesn’t go around raping and torturing animals, either. the kind of person who does things like this is someone who has something broken inside them. the propaganda is just a convenient excuse for them.
does every person have the capacity for evil acts in them? absolutely. but some people have a greater capacity than others, and they were born that way. they’re all around us, living among us, a part of every group and nation. just waiting for an excuse to do truly horrible things to other humans.
And it this point we’re back to what I said, neither of us is a psychology expert that can on a scientifical level make claims about if people are born in a way, or raised or whatever, that’s why this is mostly pointless.
I’m assuming so, because that’s the argument I’m making. being a victim of propaganda doesn’t absolve you of guilt for violent acts. you have to choose to do that. nobody is holding a gun to the heads of the IDF soldiers and telling them to rape prisoners. they chose to do that without urging. did the propaganda make them decide the people they were hurting were subhuman? yeah, maybe. but a normal person doesn’t go around raping and torturing animals, either. the kind of person who does things like this is someone who has something broken inside them. the propaganda is just a convenient excuse for them.
does every person have the capacity for evil acts in them? absolutely. but some people have a greater capacity than others, and they were born that way. they’re all around us, living among us, a part of every group and nation. just waiting for an excuse to do truly horrible things to other humans.
And it this point we’re back to what I said, neither of us is a psychology expert that can on a scientifical level make claims about if people are born in a way, or raised or whatever, that’s why this is mostly pointless.
luckily for us, there are people like that that have published peer reviewed research on the matter, so we can defer to those experts.