Whenever I point out that Islam is a problematic ideology/religion, people say, “You bigot! I know many Muslims, and they’re very nice people!” Well, I also know many nice Muslims, and in fact most of them don’t necessarily agree with Al Qaeda or IS, but Al Qaeda and IS would (rightfully, in my opinion, though I’m no more of a Muslim scholar than Barack Obama) consider them apostates. The point is that most people are “nice” by nature, but that doesn’t prevent them from adhering to beliefs that aren’t very nice at all. I suspect that if you’d lived in Germany during the war, you’d have thought most Germans “nice,” except for that support-of-Hitler thing. Just don’t let them know you’re a Jew.
7 thoughts on “Nice People”
Comments are closed.
Another example: the nice people who support the Ferguson thugs.
“more contrarian, less agreeable personalities” are more likely to refuse to hurt others.
Yippee, that’s me!
Interesting result in the study that right-wing people made the best “Nazis”. I wouldn’t like that result, of course. But the study was done in Paris! As usual, the terms “left” and “right” are an attempt to make a multi-dimensional issue into one dimension. I doubt I have much in common with a “right-winger” from Paris whose basic issue is that he hates Muslim immigrants.
Well the Wahabists of Al-Qaeda and ISIS feel perfectly fine blasting away the tombs of religious figures of Islam and killing Christians in a bus because they are apostates and both of those things AFAIK are not lifted out of the Koran which actually states that Abrahamic religions are to be tolerated.
Abrahamic religions are to be tolerated.
Yes, and tolerated means waiting for a chance to kill them.
‘Zilla, really?
The objective of Islam is nothing but Islam shall exist. Which means tolerate and lie about your objective until you can move forward on it. This also means killing Muslims when they get in the way of this objective.
News flash, compliant people take orders.
I would suggest tossing the results of these kinds of experiments based on some other papers that held that the participants know it’s just a silly game. It’s not testing how much pain someone will inflict under orders, it’s testing how deep everybody is into their acting roles and how people think that role should play out. “Am I playing the person that turns the knob all the way up, or am I playing the person that refuses to? How do I milk this for maximum impact?”