CMV: dehumanizing people over their political opinions is paradoxical and kills honest debate.
I think that we live in a period of story where it is easy to show no empathy to people you consider your "enemies", it is almost dystopian how one of the biggest memes of the younger generation was a murdered political figure who had controversial opinions.
I think that anyone has the right of hating anyone based on their political opinions, I see no problem in it, in fact, I hated Charlie Kirk even before his death.
But even then, I feel that one of the pillars to make a society work is having respect for our neighbor no matter how much we don't vibe with them, and recently with terms like "vote shaming" or the Charlie Kirk memes I see that we're losing our basic human decency by dehumanizing people over their political opinions.
I feel that this can have catastrophic consequences on our society because even the things we consider "indisputable" are socially constructed, and a society where debate is not allowed is a society doomed to fail.
We all have skeletons in our closet when it comes to political opinions, there's no one who has a 100% socially acceptable opinion on every aspect of politics.
For example: when it comes to assisted suicide, there's no universal point of view on that where everyone agrees, there's no way you say something about that makes everyone happy, and that's fine.
That's how society evolves, by questioning even the things we see as indisputable and by debating about it.
But when we reduce people as labels and dehumanize them because they didn't agree with us on certain topics, my question is: where do we draw the line? What's something that we can discuss and something that we can't? What's an opinion worthy of dehumanizing a whole human being? And who decides that?
Again, I don't care about Charlie Kirk, I don't like the guy, the thing that worries me is how tomorrow it can be any of us who is dehumanized and desecrated after our death for sharing a controversial opinion.
And in order to stop that from happening, we should start with respect, yes, even for the people we hate.