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Note: I’m not casting all Republicans as a “skin of evil” here; I feel many of them are just people trying to make their way in the world whose daily struggles and fears have been amplified manipulated by the “skin of evil”, an administration that constantly denies human rights and demonizes (as well as convinces its followers to partake in the demonization of) people who, for the most part, are also just trying to make their way in the world. I’ve known Republicans, and while the people they give their support to frighten me, most of the ones I’ve know aren’t demons.
By not being dicks…
It’s that easy, to coexist they just need to stop being dicks. And the way to get them to stop being dicks, is by being dicks to them.
When it’s everyone against a couple dicks, they’re pressured to at least fake being decent.
Let them go wild, and normal people see there’s no consequences to being a dick, and they act like dicks too.
It’s insanely simple. Everyone just needs to agree that as long as no one is harming anyone else, it’s cool. And the only thing that’s not cool, is fucking with someone else.
When I say, “It is difficult to think of how they could coexist”, I mean if they refuse to be kind and coexist with others, meaning that they’ve truly refused to coexist and thus renounced that right.
I agree there need to be consequences for being horrid, I just think human rights need to be considered in those consequences as not to become horrid.
Also, I sort of view human civilization as a whole through the lens of Kohlberg’s theory of moral development. In many ways, we’re still in the pre-conventional stage where we still behave based on punishment and reward, and for humanity to survive long term (if we can), we need to strive as a society towards the post-conventional stage where we are largely beyond pain and punishment. We will likely never attain the post-conventional stage much like a circle can never be perfectly round, but we must approach it the best we can.