You're a woman who did a coupla shots with me at the bar, and you flirted with me and you were dressed in a sexy-time way - which forced me to rape you.
You're a random brown person who committed a minor civil offense and then you disrespected my authority as a police officer - which forced me to kill you.
You're a herdsman living in Afghanistan; you're a Muslim, and you got sold to the CIA in 2002 for about $1000 because your goats got into your neighbor's garden one day in 1995 and you never really fessed up, and he'd held a grudge against you that whole time; but we'll disregard everything after the part about you being an Afghani Muslim - which forced me to torture you.
You're just a regular somebody who can't see his way clear to buy into a religion that requires blind unreasoning obedience to a lord - which forces that lord to condemn you to torment and suffering for a thousand eternities.
You've got nobody to blame but yourself. You had it comin'. You shouldn't have been in the wrong place at the wrong time. You sent yourself to hell.
It's more than a little weird that the people who're constantly demanding that everybody take personal responsibility for everything that goes on in own their lives are the same people who can't quite think their way thru to the point where they have to own their responsibility for having raped or murdered or tortured somebody.
If I can get you to believe absurdities, I can get you to commit atrocities.
You're a random brown person who committed a minor civil offense and then you disrespected my authority as a police officer - which forced me to kill you.
You're a herdsman living in Afghanistan; you're a Muslim, and you got sold to the CIA in 2002 for about $1000 because your goats got into your neighbor's garden one day in 1995 and you never really fessed up, and he'd held a grudge against you that whole time; but we'll disregard everything after the part about you being an Afghani Muslim - which forced me to torture you.
You're just a regular somebody who can't see his way clear to buy into a religion that requires blind unreasoning obedience to a lord - which forces that lord to condemn you to torment and suffering for a thousand eternities.
You've got nobody to blame but yourself. You had it comin'. You shouldn't have been in the wrong place at the wrong time. You sent yourself to hell.
It's more than a little weird that the people who're constantly demanding that everybody take personal responsibility for everything that goes on in own their lives are the same people who can't quite think their way thru to the point where they have to own their responsibility for having raped or murdered or tortured somebody.
If I can get you to believe absurdities, I can get you to commit atrocities.
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