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[–] almar_quigley 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah but being bad and doing a good thing from time to time doesn’t make you good. Your thought experiment doesn’t provide any value because no one is saying everything the bad groups do is always and forever bad. It’s more like the severity of badness outweighs any good they are doing when it comes to the perception of them.

I’m sure Hitler gave his friends very nice and thoughtful presents. At the same time he was ordering a genocide. Are those presents then bad? Not on the surface. Is he redeemable because of that? No.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Yeah but being bad and doing a good thing from time to time doesn’t make you good.

sure, and i'm not saying that the hypothetical would make isis good

i'm saying that it would make fantasy isis worthy of praise for this specific hypothetical achievement

[–] AlexanderTheDead -5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Idek the historical context or anything that's going on in this situation right now, but your inability to see nuance and your insistent strawman is telling and exhausting.

[–] almar_quigley 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] AlexanderTheDead 1 points 1 month ago

Go on, then, which part was false? Explain it slowly.