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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
To people who made terrible choices?
#### does happen to a lot of people who didn't make terrible choices.
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While I don't disagree, my point was that it's not an excuse for the macro-behaviors of society in response to injustice, or even something they just don't like, that lead to further injustices.
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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
After having his rights renounced by the Coyotes and being removed from the UND hockey team, if, and only if, the next justice to be bestowed on him is being physically mutilated, then we can bring up the Salem Witch trials.
Also, not to ruin Halloween for anyone, but the "witches" didn't do what they were accused of, witches aren't real. Racists are, and they are scarier.
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I am aware of the facts, but I was using a clearly understandable, and historically valid example as illustration. Group think is a thing. Stacked on top of that, the phenomenon of the internet creates a true lack of empathy in humanity. In psychology and brain chemistry, it is said that people can think of up to 100 other people before they start thinking about them as objects. I would hypothesize that the internet makes that much worse, where our brain chemistry reacts to others over the internet like objects much more readily. You are probably not thinking about me, behind a computer screen, typing, as a human being, a dude that you could sit down with and enjoy a hockey game with and joke with. I may be wrong, but those are the odds.