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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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
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
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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@Aella_Girl
Replying to
@Ol_Wall
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@karlbykarlsmith
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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@Ol_Wall
Replying to
@Aella_Girl
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@karlbykarlsmith
What are any real world examples of people actually doing this? I may think a rich libertarian who doesn't want to pay any tax is morally corrupt, and condemn them. Maybe they genuinely believe that it's more moral, maybe it's just a convenient excuse, but like...
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