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throwaway5292 | 1 year ago

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exe34|1 year ago

one bans by organising their friends and community to shun the other. the other takes control of the apparatus of the state to ban the first.

you and I have very different definitions of banning.

immibis|1 year ago

A Nazi punching a Jew in the face is much worse than a Jew punching a Nazi in the face. I hope you agree with this. The latter is even, arguably, good.

card_zero|1 year ago

That's a matter of context, and raises the question of whether they're in a civil society or a war (or both at once). In principle in a civil society nobody should be punching anybody in the face and mitigating circumstances like the other person being a nazi are only details. But see Sartre's feelings about living alongside nazis in occupied France: the were very polite and pleasant, and the whole situation was tense and awkward because you're unsure of your duty in that situation - is it war or not?