GOOD GUYS VS GOOD GUYS

Louis CK tells a joke

About pro-life campaigners

Shouting & screaming outside an abortion clinic

Hounding the women going in

Lots of people look at them as awful people

But he says, ‘they think babies are being murdered in there…’

And ‘If you thought babies were being murdered inside a building

And you weren’t shouting and screaming’

Maybe that would make you the awful person…

Personal views on Louis CK aside

It’s a brilliant insight

Put another way

No one thinks they are the bad guys

We’re all good guys

Pro lifers think they are stopping babies being murdered

Pro choicers think they’re defending fundamental rights

Conspiracy theorists see themselves as freedom fighters

Those on the right think they empower people

Those on the left think they protect people

And Antivaxxers are the last stand against the tyranny of Bill Gates

There are no goodies and baddies

There’s just a load of people who think they’re the goodies

We often don’t understand why people do what they do

Because we can’t understand why anyone would behave like a bad guy

But if we ask the question

How do they think they’re the good guy?

Their behaviour can make a lot more sense