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Aella
@Aella_Girl
Most people have standard 'belief sets,' - like support for gay marriage means they also support more open immigration and strong feminism, and all these beliefs feel like the same color. I'm super interested by people whose beliefs are a few mismatched colors.
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Jakeup
@yashkaf
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@Aella_Girl
A lot of rationalist are multicolored. I don't think the justice system is racist because SSC told me so, and I use they/them because trans people told me so. And as a liberal immigrant, I'm allowed to be conservative on immigration :)
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@slutreplik
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@Aella_Girl
Where does the notion of prepacked idea sets come from? I’m personally very ideafluid in the sense that most things need to be considered from an evolutionary perspective but that doesn’t prevent people of being decent. Reality is hurtful but I can choose to filter some of it out
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James Tiberius Stone
@Evolving_Ego
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@Aella_Girl
I use they/them, but not for the reason activists want me to. I just think English needs a neutral personal pronoun, because gender honestly doesn't matter in most cases when I'm using pronouns, & "he/she" is awkward and raises the question of which comes first.
Peasant-Elect, Pay Tree Arch
@paytreearch
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@Aella_Girl
I think it's more true to say that people's worldview/value systems lead to certain political stances. So people's political stances will be correlated with the values they deem most important, and their view of the world. Most people have a few outlier opinions though.
Alex Weldon
@BeneFactumGames
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@Aella_Girl
In a lot of cases this is going to come down to simple selfishness. E.g. you'll have gay people who are all about gay rights, but are bi-exclusionary, trans-exclusionary and/or racist in various ways.
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