If you think that people who vote for the political figure you disagree with must necessarily be psychopaths, complete buffoons, idiots, brainwashed, whiny, or angrily selfish, then you should seriously reconsider like, all of your beliefs in everything
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Because you're ascribing *morality* to your beliefs; you're focusing on the depravity of the opposition and the holiness of your own tribe. In principle, you're no better than the religious, those who go to war, and those who justified slavery
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you are utterly failing to understand that someone's brain and experience can be constructed in such a way that the opposing policies actually seem like a good, loving, helpful thing for humanity that satisfies thier deepest values. Your politics has destroyed your compassion.
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this is a self defeating thread of logic because it necessarily says you yourself have had your compassion destroyed, because you're ascribing that morality to people who believe in something different to you
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No; I'm saying that people who are failing to be compassionate are falling into the same trap as the people they hate. I'm calling them hypocritical; I'm not accusing them of being psychopathic, wimpy, or depraved.
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