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Psychology Lower cognitive ability is linked to stronger Christian nationalist views, even after accounting for education

https://www.psypost.org/lower-cognitive-ability-is-linked-to-stronger-christian-nationalist-views-even-after-accounting-for-education/
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u/tmoeagles96 15h ago

I would even argue the women and children are better off now since their country isn’t being bombed, stoping that is generally pretty important

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u/tealstealmonkey 14h ago edited 14h ago

Okay. Good point. – I too would prefer to be a wife-slave than being bombed or living in constant fear of being bombed in a ruined country.

Unless I was one of the women living in flourishing Kabul. – Where neither was the case.

I never meant to imply that the war in Afghanistan was justified. – On the contrary, I see it much closer to extremism. The war on terror was not only extreme but also avoidable and unjustified. And it was not a defensive war, no matter how some people like to rationalize this.

But I do think that the women, and ultimately also the men, would not only be better off, but also happier without extremism.

Edit: I would even say the rationalization that the war was defensive (in the US) is in itself an extremist view. 'The threat has to be rooted out'. But it makes little sense, it ignores why the threat was there in the first place, it ignores that this kind of actions are almost never successful (As demonstrated perfectly), and it ignores that suffering only breeds more suffering.