Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
-- Voltaire
But usually causality doesn’t run in that direction. Those who already wish to commit atrocities will go out of their way to seek absurd beliefs.
Voltaire, being an ideas person, overestimates the impact of ideas.
Sorry, but I was immediately reminded of 9-11
-- Voltaire
But usually causality doesn’t run in that direction. Those who already wish to commit atrocities will go out of their way to seek absurd beliefs.
Voltaire, being an ideas person, overestimates the impact of ideas.
Sorry, but I was immediately reminded of 9-11