Originally Posted By u/transcendent167 At 2025-06-02 07:40:53 PM | Source


  • WatDabney@fedia.io
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    6 days ago

    Bullshit.

    They wear masks because the anonymity allows them to freely indulge the worst parts of their natures.

    Having their faces exposed would trigger the little tiny vestiges of integrity and conscience they still have lurking in distant corners of their souls, and would spoil the otherwise pure pleasure they gain from violence and brutality.

    • pivot_root@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      Having their faces exposed would trigger the little tiny vestiges of integrity and conscience they still have lurking in distant corners of their souls

      Yeah, no. That’s reaching really hard to be charitable towards them.

      This is a prime example of Occam’s razor, where the simplest solution is the most likely correct one:

      Having their faces exposed would open them up to identification, which in turn opens them up to social consequences for their actions. That’s all there is to it.