Aesthetically and in philosophy I had sympathies at some point.
To me personally it was the fact that large parts of humanity already carry that ideology. Like people pretty normal about very Nazi things when those are not called Nazi, who’d pretend to be so virtuous and judgemental when someone touches Nazi stuff more openly. And about crimes not unique to Nazis. And other formalism.
So it was just “the world around us is Nazi anyway, and referencing that directly is more honest than what they do”. I care more about preventing and defeating evil, and do more to those ends, than people running around judging and exposing others. And I don’t like hypocrisy.
that allows people to say: “I’m better than you in every way” - without giving any reasons whatsoever
You don’t need permission to consider yourself better than some other person, nor to add any reasons. Neither do they, but if you really consider yourself better, why would you care? If they really consider themselves better, why would they care? Your and their rights remain the same.
So pride is not a bad thing.
The conflict here arises only with people without dignity, who consider your pride a violation of their personal space somehow. Or that if you are better than someone, you have right to rob them and kill them. Where I live many poor people are like this, sadly. But it doesn’t mean this perception is acceptable.
Which leads us to the point that this perception is exactly how real Nazi-like movements exist. It’s people who want to find an excuse to rob and kill others. Thus they look for any sign that they are better and can do that. They are also cowardly and always seek for some power to back them. Be it real or imagined.
This is also why they like conspiracy theories - every visible conspiracy theory they throw at others has an invisible counterbalance, the conspiracy theory they imagine of the power behind themselves or one they are trying to create. It’s projection.
As you may have noticed, this is something very loosely connected to ideologies. There are many such people with Communist views too, not only Nazi, for example. It’s just people who think that robbing and killing is the only way to gain something.
It stems from poverty and lack of opportunities for honest personal development. You might have heard the saying that “poverty is a mental disorder”? What I’m describing is the subset of poverty that is not a result of real mental disorders. ND people usually don’t think the way I’ve described, and they usually have impaired social connectivity, while this inclination for violence as explanation is something typical for people whose only strong side is social connectivity.
Of course not all such people are poor, just those I’ve met were.
What I really wanted to say is that genuine pride does not fuel this ideology, it’s the opposite.
Aesthetically and in philosophy I had sympathies at some point.
To me personally it was the fact that large parts of humanity already carry that ideology. Like people pretty normal about very Nazi things when those are not called Nazi, who’d pretend to be so virtuous and judgemental when someone touches Nazi stuff more openly. And about crimes not unique to Nazis. And other formalism.
So it was just “the world around us is Nazi anyway, and referencing that directly is more honest than what they do”. I care more about preventing and defeating evil, and do more to those ends, than people running around judging and exposing others. And I don’t like hypocrisy.
You don’t need permission to consider yourself better than some other person, nor to add any reasons. Neither do they, but if you really consider yourself better, why would you care? If they really consider themselves better, why would they care? Your and their rights remain the same.
So pride is not a bad thing.
The conflict here arises only with people without dignity, who consider your pride a violation of their personal space somehow. Or that if you are better than someone, you have right to rob them and kill them. Where I live many poor people are like this, sadly. But it doesn’t mean this perception is acceptable.
Which leads us to the point that this perception is exactly how real Nazi-like movements exist. It’s people who want to find an excuse to rob and kill others. Thus they look for any sign that they are better and can do that. They are also cowardly and always seek for some power to back them. Be it real or imagined.
This is also why they like conspiracy theories - every visible conspiracy theory they throw at others has an invisible counterbalance, the conspiracy theory they imagine of the power behind themselves or one they are trying to create. It’s projection.
As you may have noticed, this is something very loosely connected to ideologies. There are many such people with Communist views too, not only Nazi, for example. It’s just people who think that robbing and killing is the only way to gain something.
It stems from poverty and lack of opportunities for honest personal development. You might have heard the saying that “poverty is a mental disorder”? What I’m describing is the subset of poverty that is not a result of real mental disorders. ND people usually don’t think the way I’ve described, and they usually have impaired social connectivity, while this inclination for violence as explanation is something typical for people whose only strong side is social connectivity.
Of course not all such people are poor, just those I’ve met were.
What I really wanted to say is that genuine pride does not fuel this ideology, it’s the opposite.