RE: Quick question if you don't mind. by apolymask

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philosophy · @apolymask · Jun 26 '18

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Thanks for your answer! Why do you think you need to know who they are in order to resist what they are doing and to help others?
Even if we don't know exactly who they are, we can still see the effects of what they are doing and we can try to address those things.

👍 dustsweeper, nodetact

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@bashadow · Jun 26 '18 (edited)

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To resist and to push back against something you need to know what you are fighting. If you do not then your actions could end up aiding those you oppose. Blind acceptance runs both ways, you can not blindly follow a crowd. Look at how people blindly tried to fight back against the "System" in Fuergeson. They thought they were fighting back, they thought they were doing right. They did not know who they were fighting. Did the shop owners who's stores were destroyed cause the problem? Did the people injured by the crowd cause the problem? The crowd thought they were doing right, did they. 
If you do not know who the enemy is, you hurt yourself, friends and neighbors that are innocent. I happen to believe collateral damage is not okay.

👍 apolymask

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@apolymask · Jun 26 '18 (edited)

I can sorta get what you're saying. And I can agree that if we don't know who our opponents are we can make things worse in ways, however.
In this case, I'm not sure it's possible to know who the string pullers are, they are so clever and so well hidden that all we see are the results of their actions. 

Does this mean we are just.. Forever screwed if we can't learn who they are? 

I think I found a better way to say it. 

If we see the world I described above before us, and we don't know who is responsible for it.. Shouldn't we at least try to find out who they are instead of just doing nothing cause we don't know who they are?

But once again, we may never be able to know they are so well hidden.
Which brings me back to my point from my last response to you.. Can't we still resist the effects of what we see? For example, speak out against wars, protest, bring awareness to the injustice.  

Even if we don't know who is TRULY organizing the wars and all the messed up stuff, we can still speak out against all the injustice we see. That in my opinion is resistance. Speaking out against injustice is resistance to it. 

For.. If enough awareness is drawn to it and enough people start speaking out and demanding change, maybe then something will happen and it will deter or slow things for the immoral abuses.

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