"PEOPLE who join certain ideologies push the rest towards the use of violence. Violent people USE ideology to justify their actions."
Yes, I'm not denying there are indeed (many) such people. However,I ALSO think an ideology can IN ITSELF be violent.
"A person doesn't become violent because of ideology, they were violent before they ever found it."
Yes, but that doesn't change the fact that an ideology CAN be violent IN ITSELF, because of what it teaches.
Let's say (hypothetically of course) that I have a political ideology that teaches that all, say, Belgians must violently die. I would say that that IN ITSELF would be a violent political ideology then, wouldn't you?
"Just like playing "doom" didn't cause columbine, they just liked it because it suited the tastes of the violent people they ALREADY were on the inside."
Is bloodshed an intrinsic part of communism?
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"PEOPLE who join certain ideologies push the rest towards the use of violence. Violent people USE ideology to justify their actions."
Yes, I'm not denying there are indeed (many) such people. However,I ALSO think an ideology can IN ITSELF be violent.
"A person doesn't become violent because of ideology, they were violent before they ever found it."
Yes, but that doesn't change the fact that an ideology CAN be violent IN ITSELF, because of what it teaches.
Let's say (hypothetically of course) that I have a political ideology that teaches that all, say, Belgians must violently die. I would say that that IN ITSELF would be a violent political ideology then, wouldn't you?
"Just like playing "doom" didn't cause columbine, they just liked it because it suited the tastes of the violent people they ALREADY were on the inside."
Yes, I agree 100%.