man, imagine you think someone is attempting to destroy civilization, and then in the process they get struck down with terrible things directly related to how they're destroying civilization. the amount of sympathy you'd have for them would probably be zilch
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I'm surprised the AIDS epidemic among gay people doesn't have a stronger cultural impact than it did (which is admittedly big!); having ppl get sick and die for engaging in exactly the behavior conservatives disapproved of must have been such intense fuel and justification.
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imagine your hated group of choice (billionaires, russian soldiers, sjws, etc.) suddenly develop a terrifying illness directly from having too much money/entering ukraine/making horrible policies. Would you feel any compassion, or would you be like 'well you got what was comin'?
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I'm real impressed we as a culture managed to decouple the morality around gayness from the bad outcomes of HIV; this is a great example of why decoupling is a *good* thing; low decoupling would be unable to properly separate the two!
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Yeah but I would still step on the last finger they were trying to hang on with
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I'm opposed to sadism regardless of the cause so I still experience sympathy for people I believe have been, are, and will be responsible for manifest evils.
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Once it became clear AIDS didn’t spread to the general population through casual exposure, it became easier for the culture to focus on basic compassion. If it had been like COVID, things would have gotten real ugly, very fast.
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