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Not relevant.
Taoists have never been accused of cramming their beliefs down other people's throats. They are obviously not included in the discussion of religions that do do that.
Sure it's a generalization. That's the point of memes.
This is just silly. Your group of people has never done anything bad so it's all okay is never a good argument since people are all pretty much the same (I mean it's wrong to treat people differently depending on the actions of people within the same wider group)
(I promise I'm not just being argumentative.)
Taoism does have a history of punishing free thinkers, and a lot of the structure around teaching is designed to interrupt logical thought intentionally with irrational thought.
So while they may not be responsible for the Crusades, or anything like that, I think it's a safe bet that even more pure fundamentalist religions such as Taoism, can and do still come with the inherent dark side of humanity, if not inherently, then implicitly by the fact that humans are involved.
Just as an aside... I don't necessarily have a point or a Counterpoint here, I just thought it was worth mentioning since I don't think a lot of people know a whole lot about Eastern religions.
Yes I know this is a lot of words for me to just remind people that were not nice as a race inherently.
I don't see anything obvious about this mess of spaghetti logic you are calling your personal understanding and reasoning, actually. Take a step outside yourself occasionally perhaps.
All I'm seeing is someone who is less informed than they want to think, and is mad at everyone for pointing that out.
The same could be said about yourself.
Deep