Juli Pelaez Calderon said she is in an unknown warehouse with many other and believes her captors are bounty hunters, she said during a recent phone call to family.
  • A South Los Angeles community activist, Yuriana Juliana “Juli” Pelaez Calderon, was reportedly “abducted” by men in an unmarked car on June 25.
  • Community leaders are demanding information on her whereabouts and access to an attorney, stating outrage over her detention.
  • Calderon was able to make a phone call, indicating she is in an unknown warehouse with many others, and believes her captors are bounty hunters.
  • Ann Archy@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Let’s not forget the realities of capitalism. When money rules our societies, and when money can buy you literally anything, you will always be able to incentivize people to do anything at all.

    I think humans are inherently moral creatures, but if you put them under artificial constraints like economic scarcity, or in prison camps, or otherwise force them to survive under some level of duress, they will always do what they need to to survive.

    Combine that with powerful national rhetoric and uniformed men with guns telling you what is right and tell you what to do and we’re beyond the concept of free will underpinning the foundations of morality.

    Just see the Milgram experiment.

    The human mind is supremely easy to manipulate.