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Replying to @bryan_caplan
The difference to me seems obvious: the socialist's "What ifs?" create situations that the average reader would feel guilty about not responding to, if they saw it in front of them, while the reader does not feel the same about victims of the government. "Why?" you ask... 1/
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Replying to @ESYudkowsky @bryan_caplan
...and I first reply that this appears true to me as a primary observation about human emotions regardless of why. But a simple depressing hypothesis is that when the Tribe is piling on someone, people have evolved not to feel as much instinctive sympathy, for obvious reasons.
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Replying to @ESYudkowsky @bryan_caplan
You won't find that answer sympathetic, I'd guess, because you are a very logical and principled person. Or maybe because you have nothing you feel as a Tribe in that sense. But it is how a lot of other people work, if the stories I've heard about "high school" are true.
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When a stranger gets hurricaned, they want to donate canned soup. When a non-ally gets drafted, or occupationally licensed out of a job, or when a non-ally is mocked at the lunchtable, they don't offer sympathy cards afterwards. Forget whether it makes sense -- you've seen it.
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