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"Where N says You're preaching to the choir, the choir being "people who are already wholly invested in being, or at least backing, someone who saves others through reason and compassion." I think this whole notion of saving people is one-a the biggest problems out there."

Yeah, good point about "saving" people, the whole notion is condescending and arrogant. And yes, N was determined to present reasonable people as these strange abberations who found it effortless to interact fairy with people they disagreed with. Saints who it was unreasonable to expect her to ever emulate. Which is why she kept talking about "perfection."

It's just an excuse to indulge her "fighty" side whenever she wants to vent her unhappiness on "the bad guys." These simplistic polarised concepts of "good people" and "bad people" are often used in that way to be honest. As Dave says above, it's easier to justify being cruel to people once you've dehumanised them.

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jt's avatar

That last is sad, but true Sir. (Well, whole post was. :-)

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