• Nepenthe@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I know you’re trolling and indeed fuck the rest, but…buddhist monks? Pretty hard to have beef with. No pun intended.

    I guess you could make the case that encouraging indifference towards suffering breeds a whole different class of sociopathy, but even then, at least they’re the least destructive they can possibly be by just never touching anything.

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        1 year ago

        Well. “Extremist” and “nationalist” were never words I thought I would see attached to the phrase buddhist monk, but here we are, I fucking guess. That’s a thing that I know now.

        I’m about to just eschew anything bipedal at this point. Two legs bad.

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          1 year ago

          And on a related note, zen buddhists have a pretty vile subsect that is entwined with Japanese militarism and has been for centuries. However there are a lot of buddhists who are really good people, and lots of buddhist sects likewise. As with almost all religions, it depends on the particular flavor of ideology they have adopted.