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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
No idea can ever murder another person, it takes a person to murder or to order the killing of someone else. I get the sense from your paragraph on communism that we can agree on that.
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I disagree with you, an idea can absolutely murder another person, especially when that idea becomes national policy.
History is full of examples.
The holocaust was the idea of a national government and the refinements to it came from those ideas.
Every single policy murderous or not comes from an idea had from an individual or a literal interpretation of an ideology.
As soon as a political theory is translated or refined it has the potential to target a group, or religion or race to the worst possible result.
I mean even in Canadian History where we've seen government policy enacted to murderous extent, and the governments at the time didn't stand up and say "Woah man you totally mis-interpreted the ideology that we were following