Your enlightenment won't stop a genocide

[NK13]

Hello @Leo Gura Don’t you think the existence of ideologies, including leftist ones, is precisely what drives humanity forward? What are leftists supposed to do in the face of something like Israel’s actions in Gaza? Remain passive and say, “I’m beyond ideology, so I won’t fight for stolen rights or against colonial violence”? I’m genuinely curious what someone like you, who claims to hold the “correct view,” is actually doing to confront such brutal injustice. Because from where I stand, the claim to be above ideology often amounts to quiet alignment with the status quo, whether consciously or not. Power doesn’t disappear simply because you reflect deeply enough or build a billion dollar business. 

The moral demand for justice, equality, and dignity is not a distraction from truth. It is truth in motion. It is the expression of the human spirit striving toward freedom. However limited, imperfect or ideological that impulse may be, it is not delusional. On the contrary, it is through such demands that truth first begins to emerge in the world. To say one must rise above all ideology and avoid moral or political engagement is not transcendence. It is abdication. And when faced with something as grave as genocide or imperial violence, retreating into abstract frameworks is not neutrality. It is complicity. Truth demands justice, not abstraction

Edited June 1 by NK13

[Hojo]

What are you going to do about a genocide on the other side of the planet? Does one person have to go around making everything is perfect? You would exhaust yourself and go insane at the same time.

[PurpleTree]

Well first of all no one holds the "correct view“

[NK13]

7 hours ago, Hojo said:

What are you going to do about a genocide on the other side of the planet? Does one person have to go around making everything is perfect? You would exhaust yourself and go insane at the same time.

No, one person can't stop a genocide but small actions matter. Not because they solve everything, but because they signal alignment, build collective pressure, and keep the truth alive in a world that would rather look away. Speaking out. Organizing. Donating. Boycotting. Educating. Holding your own government accountable. These aren’t grand heroic gestures, they’re acts of moral positioning in a world shaped by systems, not individuals.

And even if you can't stop a genocide, you can refuse to justify it. You can refuse to rationalize your own comfort while others are being erased and calling it a higher level of understanding. That’s not perfectionism. That’s just decency.

[NK13]

7 hours ago, PurpleTree said:

Well first of all no one holds the "correct view“

At least leo does claim so haha