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!
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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.
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(Paraphrasing Thomas Sowell)
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Yup. Same thing goes for when you disagree with someone & they call you arrogant or similar. No, I just disagree and you've not said anything that has changed my mind. Yes, I have a different opinion and I think mine is the right one, but so do you! That's what disagreeing is!
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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.
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This is just all the more reason to make efforts to communicate, educate yourself and try to understand each other. If we surrender to "it's too complicated to understand each other" we won't accomplish anything.
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I agree. I will add that when a person is more selfish it is because they do not see the value of others versus them self. That is why open discussion is so important is because people learn new values from others. Ergo disagreements are a healthy way of challenging new ideas.
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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)
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Even sociopathy is a form of selfishness, in the sense that ignoring or deriving pleasure from other people's suffering is not the problem, the problem is acting on that desire at that cost. In this sense a robbery falls into the same category as Charles Manson.
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