• cheese_greater@lemmy.world
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    Its not necessarily an ideology but all the worst ideologies have at root a lack of empathy and active methods to extinguish any trace of it. So lack of empathy or the violent suppression of it root and stem

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    Any religion. It makes people think of themselves as superior to other groups. It doesn’t even matter which religion. They’re all bad.

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    Any ideology may be dangerous. People who are convinced they’re tuned into a privileged view on reality may be willing to kill others to protect it. Human history is full of proofs of that.

    “On the whole I think that knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure that human sympathy is more valuable than ideology.” — Kenneth Clark

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    Neither is this about an ideology per se nor is this quote my own - but I’ve read this somewhere -

    “The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.”

    • Robert Swan (British explorer and environmental activist)
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    Any, all and each one of them. The moment you stop looking at how things are, you are finished and set right on the course of bringing unjustified pain and suffering

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    TESCREAL

    It ends in either replacing humans with AGI or massive atrocities in an attempt to achieve it.

    And there are people in positions of real power who believe in this stuff and act on it.

    Andreessen posted a manifesto where he said that deliberately delaying AGI is basically mass murder and should be treated as such.

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      I too, think this is a really dangerous one that hasn’t quite pinged on most peoples’ radar yet because it’s so niche, but like you said, when people with power and influence can actually act on it, they have the capacity to cause a lot of harm over what would normally just be fringe philosophies.

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    Isaac Asimov famously said, “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”.

    The idea that any idea is worth listening to because someone believes in it.

    Show me the proof.

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      I see four downvotes.

      Would love to know the position those people have. Are they threatened by their own ignorance being called out? Or are they just conservative?

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        I’d like to think that they are just mad that they have to see this quote so often these days.

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          I find this so confusing… it’s like the old saying, “if you don’t want to be called a fascist, don’t be a fascist!”

          Conservatives have the strangest contradictions. They want to be all these socially and morally odious things, then get upset when we call them out on those very things.

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      I think any idea is worth listening to, it’s the assertion that we must inherently accept their viewpoint as valid that is outright absurd.

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        I felt this way until recently, when I’m becoming much more aware of how limited our collective attention is. Every honest belief probably deserves to have one (maybe 3) reasonable people listen to it. But they definitely aren’t all worth national/state/city/expert attention.

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        On the playground sure, but at some level it’s show the receipts first or get fucked up to discourage gish gallop. If we don’t preemptively shut it down, we’re in extreme danger.

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    The certainty of being right.

    Why? Because when (any)one is sure to be right it means the other must be wrong and since they’re wrong they probably should not even be allowed to say what they have to say.

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      I cut a very cherished friend out of my life on Tuesday because of this mentality. When he said “I’m not going to read what you write or consider the point you’re trying to make” the first time it was enough. The second time was too much. I expressed my wish for his life to improve, told him good-bye, and removed/blocked him.

      The next morning I woke up to a text claiming I didn’t value his friendship and that he’d be here for me when I got better. That’s when I truly realized how long he’d been disregarding the support and compassion I’d been sending his way.

      I spent Tuesday mentally digging a grave for the friendship. I spent Wednesday filling it in, and that night I drank to the loss of a friend and to the health of the man who replaced him.

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    Islam. A combination of misogyny, oppressive laws, puritanical beliefs, child mutilation, condemnation of curiosity, and a particular focus on growth of numbers by both birth and conversion. Other religions are close behind though.

    Edit: Didn’t realise the OP was called Allah, lol

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      Didn’t realise the OP was called Allah

      Yeah, that and their defence of religion makes me question whether or not they ask this in good faith

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        I’m surprised by the number of downvotes I got, not that I particularly care about them per se, but the implication that so many people are either Muslim or support Islam on Lemmy is worrying.

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          i upvoted you even if i disagree because i like to engage opposite of my belief

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      yeah that’s my middle name, i don’t think i can change your mind but i will say this that majority of followers of islam have bad beliefs

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      This is surely the correct answer and for the reason you give.

      If we’re honest (and informed - a big ask, here) then we should concede that capitalism has been generally good for our species. A quadrupling of human population at the same time as a doubling in longevity - the numbers don’t lie and they perfectly track the victory of capitalism as the world’s economic system. Leftists don’t want to hear it, but it’s clearly true.

      But whatever this ideology did for humanity, it has been a complete disaster for all the other forms of life that we share our planet with. And that fact is going to catch up with us soon enough.

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        I think capitalism was a great and necessary thing to get humanity to it’s current post-scarcity state. As you said, production and innovation were really aided by capitalism in the early days of man, but now that we have all the shit we need to survive, all it does is deprive those without.

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    Fascism. It makes people loose their humanity. Fascists endure anything as long as people outside their group are suffering.

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      I got downvoted to hell last time I expressed my views about religion, but it has served me well for 29 years now (having been born in the shadow of the Vatican), so I am willing to share again:

      I work, collaborate, spend time and even sometimes have sex with religious people, all while maintaining the idea that each one of them is akin to a dormant terrorist cell, and that given the right conditions their fundamental distancing from reason and in some cases recognition of undeserved authority can turn against me and everyone else.

      I live a subtly tense life, but usually I am already in a safe place when shit hits the fan.

      I also have a very wide definition of religion and of priest.

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        I think of all superstitions as being a microcosmic form of fascism in a way, in that the mouthpiece of the supernatural is the one dictating the rules of right and wrong and what can transcend reality.

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        Especially since people use religion to bolster fascism. Fascists love to pander to a nation’s largest religion to lock in their support.

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    Greed.

    Religion has been said, but religion is always just the excuse for justifying greed

    Belief that some unfalsafiable deity is behind you, and therefore any of your actions are righteous is incredibly dangerous, because there’s no accountability. How many atrocities are justified by religion, and the belief that justice will be done in the next life?

    Religion is used to justify things like the fascist movement currently sweeping through the US, abhorrent regimes in the middle-east, and the subjugation of people (particularly women) everywhere

    Of course, religion is the justification, but the real objective is to gather more wealth and power

    From the mega-churches in the US, to the Vatican, to the mullah in a village somewhere in the world, it’s all about having more