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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_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_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_Girl
Does gun ownership result in higher gun deaths? Probably. Is it worth it? I think.... probably yes. I don't trust the systems in power. Not a tiny bit. And our entire civilization is built under the echo of the threat of force.
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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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