Stopping Riots! || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Religious fanatics and bigots - Where do they come from? || Acharya Prashant, at IIT-Delhi (2023)

Transcript

00:00Let's say there is a rioter, police might fail to know who that rioter is.

00:04But for sure there are some people who definitely know who that person is.

00:08His wife knows?

00:09Does his wife not know?

00:10His kids know?

00:11His parents know?

00:12His friends know?

00:13Or are even these people in dark?

00:16Think of a situation where this fellow engages in an act of rioting and returns home and

00:21is disowned by his wife.

00:23Would he still manage to remain the kind of ignorant figure that he is?

00:30Please tell me.

00:31But just as family members partake in the bribe money that you bring home, they also

00:36partake in all kinds of toxic attitudes that we have.

00:41Had they known that for displaying all kinds of perverse attitudes and behaviors in the

00:48name of religion, they would be socially ostracized?

00:52Would they have still dared to do what they are doing?