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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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@Aella_Girl

Feb 13, 2020

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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@Aella_Girl

Feb 13, 2020

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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Isn't this thread sliding in that very direction?

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I'm not ascribing corrupt morality to anybody who fails to be compassionate; I'm just equating them to the people they hate.

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‘You are the same as those who justified slavery' *is* you condemning them (I fucking hope!!!)

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I'm saying that the methods these people are using do not, in principle, differentiate them from people who fell into other horrific belief systems, and that we should have beliefs built on principles that would actually prevent us from the other things we judge.

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For example, when I was religious I realized I needed to apply a type of reasoning to my own religion that would evict me from my religion if my religion was wrong, if I were to expect other people to leave their religions because their religions were wrong.

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