hitler's intentions were good to him according to his "essential nature" (or his actions would be contrary to his nature, somehow) intentions/malignancy are a nop for reasoning about morality except insofar as you're judging actions-as-intended, on the intention's own merits
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Replying to @averykimball
We'll see who ends up in a vast butchers yard in practice I guess. Sort of suspect it will be you.
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Replying to @Alephwyr
if authoritarians get their way, i have no doubt about it they hate non-authoritarians, we tend to free people
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Replying to @Alephwyr
so charges authoritarians, when they wish to rationalize their authoritarianism
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Replying to @averykimball
Yes, authoritarians are very tricky. They subvert all manner of accusations.
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Replying to @Alephwyr
they really only have one, at the bottom of the critical regress "no, you see, *everything* is authoritarian, so i'm excused when i do it to you" and people who *oppose* authoritarianism? "well, they take my freedom to be an authoritarian, so are at most hypocrites"
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Replying to @averykimball @Alephwyr
you will have a *tremendously* difficult time tu tuo que-ing me, comrade
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Replying to @Alephwyr
the tu quo que is *literally* the last resort in this game, i'm not surprised
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I don't suppose it matters since none of the internet is liable to survive as evidence, but the idea was really just to register my prediction for posterity
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Replying to @Alephwyr
i guess fantasies of nihilistic fatalism is the best move, here
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