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by bryanlarsen 581 days ago
Most people are both decent human beings and moderately selfish. It's just the nature of being human. Humans have flaws.

But some people definitely are not decent human beings. Just like if you have a couple apples in the barrel that are spoiled you have to treat the whole barrel as spoiled, we have enough evil human beings to spoil the whole barrelful.
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MrMcCall 581 days ago
If most people were decent human beings and only moderately selfish, the world's governments and UN would work much, much differently than they do now. As well, America's recent election would have gone much differently. Ignorance is selfish, lying is selfish, letting the greedy become wealthier is selfish, and any and all oppression is selfish.

Global heating is caused by selfishness born of ignorance, and that ignorance is selfish for our currently untenable status quo, especially here in America.

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bryanlarsen 581 days ago
IMO that is all explained by the second part of my comment.

A few people are not decent, and it only takes a small number of those to ruin it for everyone.

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MrMcCall 581 days ago
What was just done in America is going to hurt people all across the world, and it was not a small number of people.
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bryanlarsen 581 days ago
> it was not a small number of people.

Exactly. The laws of the mob apply.

Gather a large number of decent people. Seed that mob with a small number of evil people. Now that mob is evil.

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MrMcCall 581 days ago
A large number of decent people do not become evil; they resist evil, denounce it. By definition, a good person cannot be swayed by evil people. Only the morally ignorant and callous can be swayed by evil. Yes, that is the majority; it always has been.

People who have no spiritual growth do not understand this fact. In fact, they deny it, even as it is happening right in front of their face.

Lack of spiritual growth prevents a person from comprehending the facts of evil. A person of worldly means usually has an even more difficult time apprehending such facts.

That a flat Earther has never looked through a telescope does not make their opinions fact, yet how they deny the truth, huh?

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TeMPOraL 581 days ago
> By definition, a good person cannot be swayed by evil people. Only the morally ignorant and callous can be swayed by evil.

Unfortunately, that flies in the face of everything both science and religion say. It's a rare case when the two agree on a point, but this one is it.

(Unfortunately for your argument; fortunately for humankind.)

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