Millions upon millions of people believe their grievances, their narratives, their beliefs grant them the right to murder, sexually abuse and commit other atrocities.
They believe that their accusations, their narratives, real or not, their words, true or not, including words such as apartheid, colonizers, occupation, liberation, resistance or something else, grants them license to murder, sexually abuse and commit other atrocities.
Conveniently forgotten are the most basic moral principles, the very glue that holds humanity together, that nothing ever justifies murder, sexual abuse and other crimes against humanity.
Yet countless people support entitlement to murder and to commit other atrocities, often granting this entitlement to the people that suit their political or religious narratives.
Countless millions sheepishly, cruelly go along with this belief that there is a right bestowed to some to commit the worst of evils and cruelties.
Grievances, claims of injustice, narratives about history, political or religious narratives, real or not, gives no one the right to murder, to sexually abuse and commit other crimes against humanity.
There are no exceptions. Not by the perverse use of denial or by deceptions that try to free murderers and abusers from responsibility by casting blame and responsibility away from them or by anything else.
Some try to equate casualties of war with murder in order to demonize the people they despise. War is one of the worst things people do to one another. but war and murder are not the same. Even war, horrible as it is, is never justification or defense for murder, sexual abuse and other crimes against humanity.
There will never be peace or justice in this world as long as large numbers of people continue to support, justify, defend or excuse murder, sexual abuse and other crimes against humanity, believing there is entitlement or a right to commit these terrible, evil things.
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