What if they eventually change tho. Then they just have to explain their shitty past to everyone. A Nazi without a brand can just become a normal person. Once you brand them, you give them a reason to never change. Why would they if they’ve been told that’s all they’ll ever be?
Punishments like this assume people can’t change or that bad people never become good.
We’re not better than them because we can match their cruelty, we’re better because we recognize the humanity of everyone, even “monsters.”
A lot of people are not mature enough to hear this. The ideal outcome of meeting someone you dont like is that person changes over time to be better, hurting them just drives them further away from you.
You dont “fix” an abused dog that barks at everything by hitting it.
Then how do you fix it? What is your mature wisdom that magically solves the problem of fascism without harming anyone?
I aint saying we brand Nazis, but I also don’t think we should be treating them like an abused dog. They arent afraid from trauma and abuse. They want to dominate and abuse others. An abused dog does not seek violence, it lashes out because it feels threatened and cornered. Nazis are looking for violence.
It is ok to punch Nazis. If they don’t want to be harmed, literally all anyone is asking of them is to stop being Nazis. It does not seem like a big ask to me
There’s too many of them and they’re ruining the country. We have to do what we must and if they might have come around in 20 years too bad they’re a Nazi now and we got work to do. We can be nicer to the stragglers after naziism has been firmly put down
I once believed like you, but I’ve slowly come to realize a lot of people refuse to change. It’s not that they’re incapable, but they just don’t want to.
So they pretend to change instead because it’s easy. Then a couple of decades down the line they start to drop the act and go back to being terrible.
Inglorious Basterds tattooed a Nazi, so they can never hide.
We should do that.
What if they eventually change tho. Then they just have to explain their shitty past to everyone. A Nazi without a brand can just become a normal person. Once you brand them, you give them a reason to never change. Why would they if they’ve been told that’s all they’ll ever be?
Punishments like this assume people can’t change or that bad people never become good.
We’re not better than them because we can match their cruelty, we’re better because we recognize the humanity of everyone, even “monsters.”
Edit: a word
A lot of people are not mature enough to hear this. The ideal outcome of meeting someone you dont like is that person changes over time to be better, hurting them just drives them further away from you.
You dont “fix” an abused dog that barks at everything by hitting it.
Then how do you fix it? What is your mature wisdom that magically solves the problem of fascism without harming anyone?
I aint saying we brand Nazis, but I also don’t think we should be treating them like an abused dog. They arent afraid from trauma and abuse. They want to dominate and abuse others. An abused dog does not seek violence, it lashes out because it feels threatened and cornered. Nazis are looking for violence.
It is ok to punch Nazis. If they don’t want to be harmed, literally all anyone is asking of them is to stop being Nazis. It does not seem like a big ask to me
There’s too many of them and they’re ruining the country. We have to do what we must and if they might have come around in 20 years too bad they’re a Nazi now and we got work to do. We can be nicer to the stragglers after naziism has been firmly put down
I once believed like you, but I’ve slowly come to realize a lot of people refuse to change. It’s not that they’re incapable, but they just don’t want to.
So they pretend to change instead because it’s easy. Then a couple of decades down the line they start to drop the act and go back to being terrible.
If someone becomes a Nazi then there already was a shitton wrong with them for them to even turn that path.
I believe in redemption; but I believe also that once you go that far right, it is hard to redeem at all.
If they want to redeem themselves, they should try:
a) opposing all forms of authoritarianism
b) neither spouting nor consuming hatred against anyone who’s not a billionnaire
c) and they should oppose all billionnaires, especially the ones that don’t do either of the above.
Basic decency requires very little effort. I’m going out on a limb and say that the only good fascist is a dead one.
“I’m worried that
the babyByteOnBikes thinks people can’t change” People can changeif they’ve truly changed, they’ll accept the brand as a sobering reminder of their past.
kinda like how Germany keeps Auschwitz as a museum.
While I’m neutral toward the message of your comparison, I just want to point that it kind of falls flat because Auschwitz is not in Germany