Let's make fun of wierd people. These 'Star Wars' fans, with thier lightsabers and Darth Vader masks, spending so much time, effort, and money on what is essentially a series of movies, they deserve to be made fun of. Call them names, laugh at them, recommend them for phychiatric help. They're wierd, and wierd people deserve to be ridiculed for thier wierdness. But wait, it's more than that. It's not just wierdness, it's a public nuissance. Look at all the freakies camping out in line to get tickets for a movie. One of them even quit his job to do it! These people are a menace, and not of the phantom variety, either. They corrupt our youth with such wierdness as 'May the Force be with you'. They promote a philosophy based on a movie; it's a cult, and it threatens to engulf us all. Let's make them all feel bad about being so wierd. Ridicule them, laugh at them, write humiliating jokes about them. Stick your foot out and trip one as he walks by... they look hillarious when they're face-down on the sidewalk with thier Jedi robes splayed about them. Oh, wait, he's getting up. He seems mad. He's starting a fight! These wierdos are dangerous! We should avoid them whenever possible. But how can you tell a wierd person from a not-wierd person? Sometimes they can fool you. They have jobs, and cars, and families. Sometimes thier wierdness only manifests itself in private. Wait at the theater, and make each one of them wear an armband with the Rebel Alliance insignia on it. Now we can tell who's who. Wow, they're everywhere. They're in the malls, and the grocery stores... yuck, one of them touched that apple without buying it. And that one just took the last open seat in the front of the bus. They should all have to ride in back... those Jedi robes get caught on everything. Armbands, everywhere. We should gather them up and lock them away where they can't hurt us anymore. Put them in a camp out in the middle of nowhere. Let them watch those stupid movies all they want. Wait... I had no idea there were so many of them! And now they're all gathered together... why they're a veritable army! In numbers like that, they'd be unstoppable if they decided to do something violent; after all, thier heros are all Rebels trying to overthrow the government by force. We have to do something about them. Perhaps a final solution would be to just gas the lot of them and be done with it. Rotten wierdos, they all deserve it, anyway.
Little steps. Little steps is all it takes to go from making fun of people who are different than you to a Hollocaust. I just took those steps in the preceeding paragraph, and look how quickly I mushroomed from an ordinary guy to a monster. The moral is, think about what you do and say beforehand. Everything you do, every word you say, has consequences. Some consequences are big, and some are small, but they're all there, every day, every minute of your life. Your actions affect not only you, but all the world around you as well... and that includes other people. Think about thier feelings the next time you want to crack a joke at someone else's expense; think about it the next time someone cracks a joke at your expense.