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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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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@Aella_Girl
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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@Aella_Girl
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@Aella_Girl
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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@Aella_Girl
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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Orual
@NaamahOrual
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@Aella_Girl
A lot of gay people would say that it did have a pretty substantive impact, that things like gay marriage might have happened much sooner but for AIDS. Polls show a fairly significant shift in public opinion against gay people and laws like Section 28 in the UK were passed.
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