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by renegat0x0 1022 days ago
Can institutions be "bad" at all? Is black lives matter bad because some people used it's institution money for their own private gain? I think that social institutions rarely are 'bad'. People can perform atrocious actions. They are using institutions for their own private gains. Can LGBT be "bad", or actions of individuals are bad?

I know that certain actions of certain people, or history can shed shadow for institution, but I am not convinced about how "good" have Church done, and how much "bad". It would be not easily quantifiable. It should not be also dependent on contemporary perception.

I am not sure if using world war 2 history does the topic justice. We look on it through rose tainted glasses of today. We do not know how it was. For example if you did not participate in it you could be in danger yourself. Please take a look at Franz Jägerstätter biography. For not taking Hitlers oath he was sentenced to death.