{"id":6843,"date":"2009-11-21T03:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oooorgle.com\/wordpress\/?p=6843"},"modified":"2016-11-21T06:45:04","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T13:45:04","slug":"murdering-the-group-saving-individuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/murdering-the-group-saving-individuals\/","title":{"rendered":"Murdering the Group, Saving Individuals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.strike-the-root.com\/62\/molyneux\/molyneux1.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/images\/Grouping.png\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" \/>Strike-The-Root.com<\/a> | The saddest thing is that we know exactly  how to bring peace to the  Middle East  \u2013and everywhere else for that matter! Solving the problem of collective violence might have been a real head-scratcher in the Middle Ages, but it takes a truly modern education to pretend ignorance now!   <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s embarrassingly simple, of course, but you\u2019ll wear out the batteries on your TV remote scanning for a mention of it anywhere.  <\/p>\n<p>What is the solution to the problem of collective violence? Why, just this:  <\/p>\n<p>Stop believing in groups!  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cGroups\u201d don\u2019t exist, any more than a \u201cforest\u201d exists independently of the trees it describes. A \u201cJew\u201d doesn\u2019t exist. An \u201cArab\u201d doesn\u2019t exist; neither does \u201c Israel \u201d or \u201cMuslim.\u201d There are people and land and trees and sky. There are no \u201cgroups.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>If people surrender their moral independence to some \u201cmorally-superior\u201d collective (or, more accurately, some madman claiming to speak for such a non-existent entity), then of course violence is the inevitable result. Irrational and collectivist moral absolutes are the fundamental WMDs of our species. Believing you are part of the \u201cmaster race\u201d because you\u2019re Jewish, or the \u201cchosen of Allah\u201d because you\u2019re Muslim, opens the path to blood, tears, flames and graves. Such delusions are both false and absolutist\u2013the most deadly combination. Irrational moral ideals which must be enforced always end up murdering the innocent and the not-so-innocent en masse. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strike-the-root.com\/62\/molyneux\/molyneux1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read Entire Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Stefan Molyneux<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strike-The-Root.com | The saddest thing is that we know exactly how to bring peace to the Middle East \u2013and everywhere else for that matter! Solving the problem of collective violence might have been a real head-scratcher in the Middle Ages, but it takes a truly modern education to pretend ignorance now! It\u2019s embarrassingly simple, of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[176],"class_list":["post-6843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-groups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}