• waterwasamistake@lemmy.zip
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    6 hours ago

    “nice” is a meaningless term. Nazis are very often “nice” people on the surface.

    What we want people to be is good and being actually good not just pleasent to be around takes work, it means to not react to your base instincts, it means introspection, it means weighing your wants and needs against the needs of others, it means sacrafice.

    Its very easy to say immigrants are solely responsible for their situation so they should deal with it themselves. It is much more complicated to learn about the realities and nuances of their lived reality.

    For an example if you have an aggressive dog you can either just shoot it or you take on the responsibillity of training it which means you have to learn about training, invest time and energy to do so and put yourself at risk while doing so and at the end the dog might still bite you.

    Raising people to be good takes much more energy and willpower than speaking to their base instincts.