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Aella
@Aella_Girl
On the oversimplified political spectrum, are you closer to a liberal or conservative? || Can someone both be a kind person and also hold the exact opposite of your political views?
  • Liberal || Yes
    46.7%
  • Liberal || No
    6.7%
  • Conservative || Yes
    44.7%
  • Conservative || No
    1.9%
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Kabelo Moiloa
@11kilobytes
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@Aella_Girl
The whole idea that political ideologies have canonical context-independent "opposites" is dubious. Political philosophy is for solving concrete political problems, and specific features of these problems allow us to creatively and continually reinterpret our ideas.
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satsu-chan, B.S. 🇺🇸🐀🍊
@satsuchan2
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@Aella_Girl
Within the Overton window, sure. I think some people will interpret the opposite of their political views to mean some insane "evil is good, slavery is freedom" ideas that no one could believe with good intentions.
Mojave Zen
@Zenfucius
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@Aella_Girl
A lot of the nicest, kindest people I have ever met have held political beliefs I find abhorrent (and we were/are friends even tho we know our differing beliefs) & some of the most horrid, evil, nasty people to those stuck near them IRL have held/proclaimed saintly beliefs so...
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Sheepdog Frank
@navymig
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@Aella_Girl
Absolutely can be good people. I have several great friends I debate with almost daily that are on the opposite end of the political spectrum but I'd buy them a beer any day of the week.
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Kyle
@serptopia
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@Aella_Girl
This question is slightly stacked against liberals by specifically choosing "kind" over "good" or something more generically virtuous. Conservatives don't classically dislike liberals for being "unkind", they dislike them for being lazy, entitled, or depraved.
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