The Dumpster Fire of Obama's Moral Authority

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274. Out of curiosity

would you have supported trying FDR for sending Japanese-Americans to internment camps?

You get annoyed with Obama using the word sanctimonious. But he's not wrong. There is a hell of a lot of evidence that most people would absolutely be willing to inflict harm on others under dubious circumstances. The Milgram experiment, the Stanford Prison and many others demonstrate conclusively that the majority of people will in fact complete an action that, by all outside logic, is committing harm to others.

I understand that most people want to believe that they couldn't possibly be corrupted. But frankly that's generally a load of self-serving bullshit in my experience usually made by people who have never been really tested on that front. It's not simply sanctimonious, it's hubris, and particularly in your case (for reasons that should be obvious), it shows an appalling lack of self-awareness about how little it takes to push somebody towards using violence, or the threat thereof, to get what they want.