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When you are telling someone how to change his behavior, what to think, you are "educating" him or "opening his eyes". You are also a good person spreading the truth.

But when your opponent in ideology does that, he is "brainwashing", "propaganding" or "taking advantage of innocence/ignorance". He is a bad person spreading lies.

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That goes down to base values.

Questioning ones that fundamentally don't align, but you never actually know, because you only see your own side.

You can think you see the other side, but that often is incorrect. Those things are built into us from everything we learn as we grow, from experience.

It's easier to just not consider people opponents, ones you choose to interact with. That's sometimes hard when the world seems screwed up.

or how group of people fighting for against cultural genocide and right to govern themselves under their own values are selectively given the title "independence fighters" or "fucking terrorists" depending on their political alignment with whoever is labelling them.

There is no absolute morals.

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