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>people are bad completely randomly and the way to stop that is to say that genocide is always wrong
if they're bad completely randomly, why this assertion affect them? If your only position is "don't do genocide", wouldn't the next Hitler just never say he was going to do genocide? Aren't simple, braindead positions like this actually just the easiest positions for a dangerous deranged person to see and steer clear of?

This isn't a fully baked thought. This is something that occurred to this dude on the toilet.