You really can't rant repeatedly about how the people running an abusive system are "bad" and "evil" one day, and in response to people pointing out stuff like Milgram's shock experiment insist that because we all have free will, "any decent person" would refuse to support such a system--
--and then, the next day, say that you don't believe in the concept of "good" and "bad" people.
Not unless you have had a huge epiphany in between the two.
Certainly not if you're still trying to defend all the stuff you said the day before.
I know some people just think it sounds like a good idea not to believe in the concept of "good" and "bad" people. I think it sounds like a good idea, too. But I also think that people don't always realise what it means not to believe in it. How that actually has to be applied to how you reason in other situations. How you have to take it a lot further than you were ever taught and further than you might be comfortable with, in order to actually live by it. And sometimes, it seems like people don't even take the first obvious step in that direction.
--and then, the next day, say that you don't believe in the concept of "good" and "bad" people.
Not unless you have had a huge epiphany in between the two.
Certainly not if you're still trying to defend all the stuff you said the day before.
I know some people just think it sounds like a good idea not to believe in the concept of "good" and "bad" people. I think it sounds like a good idea, too. But I also think that people don't always realise what it means not to believe in it. How that actually has to be applied to how you reason in other situations. How you have to take it a lot further than you were ever taught and further than you might be comfortable with, in order to actually live by it. And sometimes, it seems like people don't even take the first obvious step in that direction.
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