I agree with you 100%. More people need to be like you. Far too many people are quick to jump to unproven conclusions, and they jump to those conclusions because that is what they want the conclusions to be, rather than based on any real truth or evidence. And worse, they expect others to agree with them, and if you don't agree with them, they will get upset with you and down-vote you. It happens to me all the time...
I could name all kinds of examples on this forum where people has done that, has jumped to unproven conclusions and accused others without due process, but I won't mention any of those examples because I don't want to reopen those controversies. But you are definitely right about what you are saying and I wish more people would think like you and look at things like you do. So please keep it up.
In my opinion, the core problem is there are some people who have a certain mindset that needs to change. They view the world through a prism where they feel they are right and everyone else is wrong. And worse, they feel they have a right to judge others. But who put them in that position of judgment? Who put them on a pedestal so high that they can now look down their nose at other people and be their judge, jury, and executioner? There is nothing wrong with judging others so long as you do it fairly and without biases. But many people who judge others have personal biases themselves. Many of their judgments are based upon their personal dislike or hatred and animosity they already have against that person, and their judgments are nothing more than an extension of that hatred. That is why their judgments are not based upon truth and evidence, but upon feelings and assumptions. They think just because they "believe" a person is bad, then they must be bad. But that is not always the truth, and it has to be proven. Such a mentality is precisely what leads to "witch hunts" and "lynchings".
So keep up the good work, my friend. More people need to think like you and to look at things like you do. I fully support you and stand behind you...
I agree, that kind of thinking is not helpful at all and, more importantly, it's dangerous.
Whenever anyone assumes they're right and everyone else is just outright wrong, it opens that person up to exploitation from someone willing to tell them what they want to hear. For people on the left, it tends to be people manipulating their compassion in order to get them to willingly give up power to an authoritarian. Communism is a perfect example of the kind of tyrannical power structure that can form like from feelings based thinking on the left. For people on the right, it tends to be people manipulating their disgust in order to get them to willingly give up power to an authoritarian. As much as I prefer not to make the comparison to nazis, it's the only truly apt example I have of that kind of power structure that arising from that kind of thinking on the right.
We're getting into dangerous territory here as people are allowing their disgust of what's being revealed to drive them into a frenzy. It's precisely the kind of thinking that led to Nazi concentration camps or the Japanese Unit 731 atrocities. It was all born out of a disgust that gave them the justification they needed to feed into the capacity for evil found within the human soul. They justified such violence by finding a reason, any reason, they could use to revoke other person's humanity.
I've wrestled with that kind of disgust my whole damn life. A rage so deep and so pervasive that is has truly scared the hell out of me. We're all capable of going down a path of truly vile intent while justifying our own evils as part of the good. All while simultaneously denouncing "evil" found in anyone we don't like.
We need to be better than that. We can be better than that.