Hello Sunstone,
I believe the question I asked is relevant. If hatred alone stands as murder. We see how Hitler turned people to hate Jews and even disabled people put to death.
How would hatred fit in when akin to murder? So I do not feel that lynching is the only outcome of pogrom.
I've said nothing at all about hatred being equivalent to murder. That's a true 'false equivalence' in the srtict sense of 'logic'.
I have a personal request: If anyone makes harsh sport of you for ever committing any logical fallacy at all, then please: in your most worshipful and reverent words ask whoever is making fun of you, for their Divine permission to tell all your friends that Jesus has called you to go among the people and proclaim that the Second Coming has arrive. For either that was Jesus himself who spoke to you, or it was just one more nutcase running around clueless that he or she is human, and that he or she makes the same universally human mistakes when trying to think, as everyone does. Only they themselves must be blind to their own.
Shaming someone for making an error of any kind of reasoning is out of touch with self-awareness for anyone who is not actually being intentionally malicious. Excepting however you wish to make of it's done in defense of yourself or in defense of someone else, such as in an insult skirmish anywhere on the net.
Messing up thinking about anything honestly is a build-in psychological 'illness', common to everyone. The label for all of the built-in ways that humans can jump off their tracks is "cognitive biases". They're just like a group of different fun house mirrors for looking at things with.
If you are sharp enough to think about some reality, using several different ways, methods, or approaches to that same reality, then you're doing good by human standards. At least, good.
You have just taken a circular walk around Michelangelo's statue of David, and you have not ended up by so losing your sense of direction, that you need to help to get outside the building in order be driving to the nearest cafe for a serious two part therapy of liquid reorientation.
Part one: Get Drunk. Part Two: Sleep it off, hoping to be rebooted as you wake up the next morning.
Thinking I'm exaggerating? Then I suggest reading the day's political news. Any country with privately own media outlets will do if you can find one in your favorite language.
Me, my current favorite language for American news are the Hong Kong websites in Chinese. I don't understand Chinese. In this context, that's an idle fact.
My take on it is that lying can be used to motivate people to do things. That kind of lying can gin up hatreds. Those powerful motivations are so easily used to motivate someone or some group to do something immoral or criminal.
Again, I do not think of hatred as the equivalent of murder.
