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Religion is perfect for making normal people act like a bunch of sociopaths.

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” Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”

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You gotta source that quote, fam. I wanna know ^^

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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful

Lucius Annaeus Seneca. All it took was copying the line into Google. I’m surprised how often people forget that they can do this.

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I was hoping you guys might think I was clever enough to come up with it.

/s

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Religion is exploited by actual sociopaths to justify their behavior.

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Religion is exploited by actual sociopaths to justify their behavior.

(most forms of) Religion is constructed to be exploited by actual sociopaths to justify their behavior.

FTFY

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“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.”

– Steven Weinberg

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I tried to come up with a more palatable comment, and all I can think of to say is “fuck these stupid jackasses”.

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Naw, that about sums it up. It’s depressing and pathetic.

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It works for me.

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Can you imagine your purpose in life being “the guy who makes sure people’s scarves are good enough”?

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Oh they salivate for it. Some people will jump at any chance to be a fascist.

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“Oh no the Ferengi don’t want to stop the exploitation. We want to become the exploiters!”

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Can you imagine your purpose in life being “the guy who makes sure people’s scarves are good enough”?

A more accurate interpretation: Can you imaginer your purpose in life being the guy who directly enforces oppression of women?

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They get off of the idea.

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Not at all.

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Can you imagine being rewarded with sex?

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You’ve mentioned this twice now but what do you mean?

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I mean that Iranian culture continues to support this.

It’s not just the men, it’s the women too. Otherwise most babies would be born from rape, which isn’t the case.

The men beating girls to death get paid and spend that money to please their wives, who in turn reward them with sex.

It’s a pretty simple concept.

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Does this mean all of the protests from a few months back are done?

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They’re probably banking on protesters not being able to use Twitter to organize.

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If only there was a way to have Twitter like features spread across hundreds if not thousands of independently owned servers that could join together in a sort of union or federation, if you will, as they see fit for their purpose. Oh well, I guess I can dream.

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Future generations are laughing it up.

Centralized services like twitter and reddit are going to go the way of Sears.

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It’s got to be hard to maintain the momentum once the government decides they’re fine with murdering the protesters. The Iranian government also let women go without headscarves for this long, I imagine as a way to let the temperature cool. They never intended to repeal the law, only let the protests disperse letting the protesters think they’d won that small concession.

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Yep. Nothing of value was accomplished, unfortunately.

I guess reasoning with your abusers wasn’t the best course of action.

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"Morality police " rapists and co come up with the fanciest names for themselves.

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It’s time for organised Iranians to start making Basijis disappear.

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