Belief is a choice, not fact. It’s fair to hate a person for choosing bigotry.
The CEO of Nestlé has gone on record saying that he believes that all water sources should be privatized.
So, to answer your question, yes.
Though there are a plethora of stronger reasons to hate the CEO of Nestlé.
I used to think that believes really don’t matter as long as the person doesn’t act on it, but almost all believes shape who we are. It starts with little comments and evolves into actions. It doesn’t have to be that way if people acknowledge harmful ideas, but if you let someone believe that women are worthless or that their race makes them superior for long enough they will become a bad person.
Before 2016, for example, we used to ignore a lot of conservative blustering as just political posturing or not worth attention because they could never do anything about it. Then Trump takes office and suddenly everyone with these shitty beliefs feels empowered to act on them.
People who have shitty beliefs are just waiting for those beliefs to be validated by someone in power so they can quit masking and act on them.
I think it’s actions that make a person horrible. You can believe what you like, but as long as you keep those thoughts sealed up in that fetid dome of yours, we’re cool.
I had a friend who was a great friend in so many ways, she was clever and very helpful when I needed anything, also would ask me for the same when she needed help. She told me once that it’s way better to kill someone else, than yourself, because then you have time to repent before you die. What a horrible belief! But it’s not like she actually went around killing people, it was hypothetical.
I don’t have the answer but the belief did not make her act in any terrible way.
Yes. The person might be able to change, but at the moment, they’re horrible.
Most people can change their beliefs. However, we don’t always have the time, and we aren’t ever obligated to entertain stupid beliefs.
Hate someone for their actions.
Be suspicious of people for their beliefs.
Avoid people if their beliefs are so concrete and premeditative that you believe they will turn their bad beliefs into actions.
Holding a belief and acting on said belief are very different things.
There are crazies who believe certain types of people they don’t like should be exterminated, but so long as they don’t act on those beliefs I don’t consider it horrible or immoral.
Well, yeah, a fascist is a horrible person, and so on. But I don’t think “horrible person” is a particularly useful or meaningful category. I don’t care if you’re a good or bad person; I care what you’re doing, what effect you have on other people and on society at large, and if the answers to those questions are negative, is there anything that can be done about it? If a fascist can be reformed, then we should do whatever we can do make that happen. If they’re a lost cause, well… I like to believe that no one is a completely lost cause. The solution if someone is truly a lost cause is not particularly nice or humane.
That lies in the reasoning for their conclusion, not what they adhere to itself. You cannot hold a negative quality against someone if it was duped upon them, but it’s not like you can’t if that part of them is pre-existing.
