• owenfromcanada@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    The CEO of Nestlé has gone on record saying that he believes that all water sources should be privatized.

    So, to answer your question, yes.

    Though there are a plethora of stronger reasons to hate the CEO of Nestlé.

  • JayObey711@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I used to think that believes really don’t matter as long as the person doesn’t act on it, but almost all believes shape who we are. It starts with little comments and evolves into actions. It doesn’t have to be that way if people acknowledge harmful ideas, but if you let someone believe that women are worthless or that their race makes them superior for long enough they will become a bad person.

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@midwest.social
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    3 months ago

    Yes, horrible beliefs make a person horrible.

    but No, I don’t hate someone just because they are horrible. Horribleness is not an immutable property. People are horrible because they lack the ethical skills to be better, and those ethical skills can be taught, including the ability to examine and reject horrible beliefs.

    • Communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
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      3 months ago

      I don’t agree that belief is always a choice, in many cases people simply cannot conceive of an alternate position being the case, in my case I have no choice but to be an atheist because I can’t believe in a god, I find it far too silly a notion.

      bigoted beliefs are of course bad, but I don’t think people choose them necessarily