Your worldview is oriented around what you think is good; people who disagree will necessarily then be working for things you think are more harmful. "What you want is more harmful than what I want" is a basic function of disagreement and isn't an excuse to end discussion.
Conversation
Replying to
I'm always bothered when people argue that I need to be deplatformed because my views are harmful. Ofc no shit you think they're harmful! I think yours are harmful too! That's why we're having this discussion in the first place!
5
22
209
Replying to
Never assume that just because someone doesn't agree with your solution to help people means that they don't care about the people you want to help.
1
1
11
Replying to
Yes, but most arguments involving differing worldviews have such high levels of abstraction and symbolism that the core disagreements get totally obfuscated. Each side might as well be repeatedly chanting the name of a sports team.
1
2
Replying to
Unless you subscribe 100% to a sort of Socratic intellectualism, then there is also selfishness. If you think about it, from a Utilitarian standpoint, there's only two potential sources of evil: ignorance (acting for an inefficient good) or selfishness (your pleasure over others)
2
1
Replying to
agree, but there's a middle that is largely characterized as in-fighting (tbh more seen on the left)
where it's a fight about prioritization
you see this with oppression olympics etc.
e.g.
what is more important? we get a woman as VP or that she hold other liberal ideals?
1
Replying to
It all rests on fallibility. I can accept I might be wrong, so I want to hear other people out. If for whatever reason someone can't accept their own fallibility, disagreements are all inherently a kind of threat rather than a chance to test an idea.
3
Replying to
Well once in the world before the Internet this was taken for granted much more. That we all had plans to make the world better and that people had other plans - some well motivated, some selfish - and we need to debate and decide. Ya know democracy.
1