
The American Taliban
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John's Blindness to the Ethics of an Institution
You know if he's like in the honeymoon period with his faith you can see there being a lot that he would just like just try hard to ignore. Just like someone who gets converted to Catholicism and he's like oh no, priests couldn't molest children because priests take a vow of celibacy. Yeah exactly. You also have a lot of willful blindness to the ethical complexities of an institution that you have just bought into. It's also noteworthy to me that John ends up dropping out of this terrorist organization when he realizes that they have political goals. Do you think he just really wanted to believe what he was told? Right. He just isn't someone who cares about politics.
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