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  • Wakmrow [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    No, they still have human rights. Like, in a war you shoot soldiers who are trying to shoot you. If they surrender, you treat them as POWs, you don't torture them or murder them. If a person is harming other people, you stop the harm but you don't dehumanize them. It's important to be consistent here.

    It's important to draw the distinction that those cops and Nazis you mentioned are in the conversation because of choices they make or beliefs they hold. Were they to stop making those choices, they would not be subject to violence. Even with the choices they make, were they to not harm others with their beliefs, I wouldn't have a problem with them holding said beliefs. The obvious problem is fascism doesn't build a cabin in the woods isolating themselves from everyone else.