It’s no secret I’m on the misanthropy spectrum, but as such a person you could say that about, I wanted to ask this ever since hearing this conveyed in response to recent events which sees three spheres of influence now arguably possessing the potential to deliver on such promises. Like… what’s the deal?
I mean, cultures generally don’t declare war, but leaderships of countries do.
I don’t expect people to abandon their culture because their home country’s current government is doing messed up stuff.
But I will hate on people who support governments that declare unjust wars. But that’s hating people for their politics, which I think has always been fine.
Hey guys, is it okay if I don’t hate Jewish people, I just hate people who do Jewish things or otherwise associate themselves with Jewish culture or identity? I mean, if they just stop being Jewish then I won’t hate them anymore!
No. No that’s not okay either.
That would imply nuking people is “a Jewish thing”. Do we really want to go there?
In general, the rules are:
It’s not ok to discriminate based on what people are (genetics, disabilities, race, gender, etc)
But it’s fine and necessary to discriminate based on what people do. We do it all the time. ‘No Smoking’ signs being perhaps the most common.
Culture is a thing that people do. They can choose not to do it. Cultures don’t deserve respect purely because they are a culture.
So if a culture is generally promoting something bad (racial/gender discrimination, for a very common example), why not discriminate? Oh keeping slaves/having vast wealth inequality/persecuting people for their sexuality/or calling for nuclear war is a thing in your culture? Then that’s totally fine and dandy because we respect all cultures, yaaay.
But in your case, it’s the leaders of the country declaring nuclear war, which may/ (or more likely) may not be in line with the culture. So… yeah no. Not ok to discriminate in that case, when it’s not a product of the culture, but of the leadership.
