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Aella
@Aella_Girl
"Masturbation is a sin." "Hey did you notice that like, half of the people who agree with that, also masturbate?" "It's their fault they don't have the willpower" "But maybe 50% failure rate to avoid a nonharmful impulse is an indication that something's wrong with your norms?"
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
Have you ever been in a relationship for more than 10 years? || Have you ever cheated, even a little bit (did something romantic/sexual with someone else that would have made your partner angry)?
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@QiaochuYuan
right but also this is why i'm using it as an analogy - from the outside, it's very clear that it's actually not harmful, despite the reasons they've made up for why it is harmful. I want a similar look at the things that we think are harmful.
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GhostOfSteveFoster
@SteveFosterLich
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@Aella_Girl
"Take sex away from people. Make it forbidden, evil. Limit it to breeding. Force it to back up into suppressed sadism. Then hand the people a scapegoat to hate. Let them kill a scapegoat occasionally for cathartic release. The mechanism is ages old."
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Texan-Canadian
@lonemapleleaf
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@Aella_Girl
This sort of "revealed preferences are moral" argument also applies to littering, cheating on taxes, yelling at strangers, etc. The commonality is that most of these behaviors have large negative externalities, which is why social pressure is needed to prevent them.
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