And then she was branded a witch and feared and revered for her witchly powers because it seems pretty fucking stupid to believe someone truly has strange and dangerous powers and immediately threaten their life.
Later witch hunts were just ways to turn mob violence against specific individuals who the original accusers didn’t actually believe were witches but wanted to kill.
I mean, yours is more accurate as far as like the Salem Witch Trials, but humans absolutely murder each other over 100% imagined beliefs. Just look at … the vast majority of history.
The Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition for starters. You’d be silly to think none of the boots on the ground believed the propaganda.
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do u have a more accurate joke
And then she was branded a witch and feared and revered for her witchly powers because it seems pretty fucking stupid to believe someone truly has strange and dangerous powers and immediately threaten their life.
Later witch hunts were just ways to turn mob violence against specific individuals who the original accusers didn’t actually believe were witches but wanted to kill.
I mean, yours is more accurate as far as like the Salem Witch Trials, but humans absolutely murder each other over 100% imagined beliefs. Just look at … the vast majority of history.
The Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition for starters. You’d be silly to think none of the boots on the ground believed the propaganda.