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Aella
@Aella_Girl
In my twitter polls a surprisingly large amount of people vote for 'small concrete good' as opposed to 'large abstract good' - for example, more people voted to 'save the life of a child' than 'prevent gender roles from reverting to the 1950s'
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
Even though 1950's gender roles would probably end or fuck up countless more childrens' lives (no abortion, anti-divorce pressure prevents a wife from leaving an abusive husband, etc.)
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
This is exemplary of a really worrying tendency overall - people look at a problem and think "We should fix that," without thinking about the large-scale, long-term impacts of the solution, or considering why the problem arose in the first place
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
For example, prostitution sometimes leads to exploitation. Yes, that sucks - but outlawing prostitution *would be even worse* in the same way reverting to 1950s gender roles to save a dying child would be worse, or criminalizing drugs to prevent overdoses would be worse.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@Aella_Girl
The gun control debate is about safety - but I see it less about safety from gun crime and more about the safety of the people from the structures that rule over us. That question seems to have far more lives at stake.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
And to the inevitable "the government's guns are bigger than ours so it doesn't matter" If I want to kill your cancer, I kill you, and all my big guns make it easy. If I want to kill my cancer, I undergo lots of careful drugs and chemotherapy, and all my big guns mean nothing.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
The war machine was designed against other countries. If the government turns the war machine against itself, it risks going down with it. And maybe it will take that risk - but an armed populace makes it less likely.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
There's a spectrum of 'how much do you trust the other person,' and there's a spectrum of 'how much power do you have compared to the other person.' Hobbesian trap is in the former. I'm talking about the latter.
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Enigmatic J
@THEenigmatic_J
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@Aella_Girl
It most likely does. However, gun control has no effects on over on downs and crime rates. This is a proven researchable fact. I wish there was a way to have an open discussion on this. I agree with where you’re going with all of this.
White Privilege Is Real
@WhitePrivIsReal
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@Aella_Girl
When your children are killed by an AR15, I'm betting your opinion would change. I'm not talking emotion, but perspective. We ban various weapons that seem to harbor more danger - like sawed off shotguns & Tommy Guns. Reducing the types & functions are like seat belts for safety.
Tim B. Good
@timbgood
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@Aella_Girl
So if in your paranoid fever dream, if the government turns tyrannical, you plan to fight the most powerful and technologically advanced military the world has ever known with rifles and handguns? Talk about bringing a pea shooter to a missile fight! Good luck with that. #msnbc