There is a difference between desired result and a temporary step, its not semantics.
Kremlin propaganda is a real thing, if you think its not, i have a bridge in Moscow to sell you.
And your attempt replication of SJW guiltmongering has been noted and will not be forgotten.
Who the fuck do you think you are to tell me what i should feel responsible for?
Get bent, useful idiot.
I'm not burying my head in the sand, i want to bury my enemies head in the sand, and i categorically refuse to feel guilty or ashamed of it, that's the difference you are failing to notice, take this "contrarian" entry level shit to someone who thinks its cool.
You are the useful idiot, and calling everything you don't want to believe Kremlin propaganda is about as asinine as calling everything you disagree with racist, and your refusal to feel shame for guilt for your own flaws is your greatest weakness. We are all responsible for one another to one degree or another, and your reflexive refusal to take responsibility for yourself is something you hold in common with the communists you so despise.
This is not my contrariness speaking here, but the purest essence of christianity, we are all of us sinners and all of us guilty of not living up to our potential. The fact that some of us willingly blind themselves to the truth does not absolve them, nor does it absolve you.
I said before on this forum that I'm an atheist but I do periodically read through the Bible and the Torah and sometimes even the Quran to try and fix that, but it's never actually stuck before and I had sort of given up on the idea that I'd ever find God but in these recent days I feel that I'm reverting to Christianity and not the milquetoast type that's preached today in modernist churches either.
Cool, but that's an attempt at mindless kind of "balancing". In real world every situation is unique, what you're trying to do here is just ensuring that you will always be contrarian and moderately wrong. And what's the use of that? If you cross all the answers on a test you will also cross all the good answers, but still, that doesn't mean you passed the test, that just means you're screwing around.
And that's what you are doing here. Screwing around. All noise, no signal.
No it's just a critique of myself, because judging others without judging myself is counterproductive. I said that I focused too much on finding fault in Ukraine and not enough on Russia, and that I focused too much on finding fault in Palestine and not enough on Israel. And I meant every single fucking word of it, because my dialogue with you is not solely for the purpose of making you a better person but also to make myself a better a person.
I am by nature adversarial and I reflexively critique people when I feel that they're lying to themselves and by extension others, which can at times lead to me excessively critiquing one side rather than the other depending on whichever partisan I'm debating at the time. That along with my excessive amount of nihilism is my greatest flaw, it's not the fact that I'm adversarial because going along with the lies of others is counterproductive both to them and myself.
You should always judge others and you should always judge yourself as well, moreover you should welcome the judgement of others as to rectify your own blindness. That is the difference between those of us who are willing to refine themselves and those of you who are willing to rot in the swamp of your own lies.
Most normal people have enough to deal with in their own lives. They can't be expected to do anything about international politics and suchlike.
That is mere sloth and indolence, a mere excuse rather than a justification, most normal people have some measure of free time to educate themselves. And the best way to educate yourself is to test your beliefs against the beliefs that are opposite to yours, to cut out the cancer that's growing in you and then confront the cancer growing in others.
The excuse that people cannot educate themselves may have held weight in the middle ages but not now. If you
don't resist you are guilty, and if you
can't actively resist then you should still passively resist by leaving.
When I first became an atheist I indulged myself in watching other atheists debate against strawmen and those who were faithful but not their intellectual equals, then I turned my scepticism on everything else that I was raised to believe in, indulging in my own sense of superiority over the plebs that were simply following the garden path. But my scepticism was still a greater force than my own narcissistic belief in myself and so it was eventually turned against the atheistic beliefs I had indulged in, and the presumption that a society could live without the belief in God.
This eventually led me down the path of nihilism because while I realized that religious belief was a far more potent unifier than any of these new philosophies, I myself could not find God regardless of where I looked, but in recent days that has begun to change. I find myself for the first time in my life experiencing the divine, because I have taken the next step and started to turn my doubt inward and ask myself how I could be better.
No more indulging in nihilism or murderous revolutionary fantasy, I've already made a start in judging myself in the cold light of day the same way that I judge others.
