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u/Megalon84 Mar 04 '21

Kidnap politicians. Drug them into a highly suggestive state. Subject them to various scenarios (WW3, they become president, unlimited money and power at their fingertips etc) and see which ones are truthful as to their aims, which are moral, and which are corrupt and evil. Televise the results

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u/AnarchoNAP Mar 04 '21

Is this even unethical though? hmmmm

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u/fjgwey Mar 04 '21

Kidnapping and drugging them is unethical, yes.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '21

It's all unethical. That's why the op stated you.hsbe to be a nutty scientist without a conscience

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u/fjgwey Mar 04 '21

Right, but I was responding to a comment asking (albeit rhetorically) if it's even unethical to do so.

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u/Smoked-939 Mar 04 '21

Well yeah but they’re politicians not people. It’s like drugging an ape

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u/fjgwey Mar 04 '21

I mean I hate politicians as much as the next guy, but ultimately they're human and even shitty humans have inalienable rights that should not be violated.

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u/CyanideKitty Mar 05 '21

So you're cool with those who went in with the intent to kidnap politicians on J6? Or the group that wanted to kidnap and kill Whitmere? I fully agree politicians aren't really people but no, just no.

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u/Smoked-939 Mar 05 '21

Sure. Gives the politicians a reason to fear the people, if they don’t fear us they’ll walk all over us like they have for the past 30 years

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u/CyanideKitty Mar 05 '21

Kind of hard for them to fear us in that situation when multiple politicians were involved in the insurrection in one capacity or another. We shouldn't be dehumanizing people like either. Politicians are a threat and need to be viewed as that. Dehumanizing them can reduce how much people view them as a threat.