No, just because that person you know supports a policy that might have some unintentional downsides does not mean they're an evil person trampling your human rights, you binary-brained oversimplifying victim-narrativizing meanie
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I'm really really not trying to dunk or anything, but I'm curious how this angry and frustration interacts with the "try to treat everyone like you love them" you mentioned in the bathtub interview. (Answer of course might be that that's not what you're doing here)
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Yeah I was confused about that for a long time; my philosophy is something closer to just feel what you feel; I don't actually advocate treating ppl like you're in love with then if that isn't what you want to do. I do think to fully see what's going on results in deep love, and
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a limerick:
a fact that we try to resist
that stubbornly seems to persist:
contra partisan hacks
and media quacks,
some tradeoffs will f-cking exist
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I ask this all the time. Tell me in as few words as possible how you define politics and what it's purpose is in life?
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You’re overlooking the fact that the cruelty was the point, broadly speaking. You assume good-faith operators, and that’s not the case.
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What if the downsides are intentional?
Also, what's the pragmatic difference between not-evil people trying to ruin things I like in life and evil people trying to ruin things I like in life?
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No, just because that person you know supports a policy that might have some unintentional downsides does not mean they're an evil person trampling your human rights, you binary-brained oversimplifying victim-narrativizing meanie
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