That urge to make and take sides, to paint one group as the good guys and another as the bad guys not matter how mixed the actual situation, to have someone(s) to target and feel okay about hating on - that underlies a lot of the agony over "deciding" who is good as we read about this mess. Maybe we need to go back to Gandhi and start by declaring that no one is a fit target for hatred.
That urge to make and take sides, to paint one group as the good guys and another as the bad guys not matter how mixed the actual situation, to have someone(s) to target and feel okay about hating on - that underlies a lot of the agony over "deciding" who is good as we read about this mess. Maybe we need to go back to Gandhi and start by declaring that no one is a fit target for hatred.
That urge to make and take sides, to paint one group as the good guys and another as the bad guys not matter how mixed the actual situation, to have someone(s) to target and feel okay about hating on - that underlies a lot of the agony over "deciding" who is good as we read about this mess. Maybe we need to go back to Gandhi and start by declaring that no one is a fit target for hatred.