I will link the article at the end of this thread. But the premise was this: we often assume that violent people are morally adrift...
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but what if that comes from our own moral bias? In other words, suppose the violent person *knows* that killing is morally wrong, so what?
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Suppose both you and the killer are similarly morally aligned: killing is bad. But the killer simply doesn't give a damn. Then what?
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The call to action is that we need much more than appeals morality to stop murderous, discriminatory violence.
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This is why debating the Nazi never works: you have to assume they even give a fuck about a rhetorical trap. Or being called a hypocrite.
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For them, reason and morality are wonderful virtues to uphold... after they do a genocide.
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People who want to eradicate all Muslims don't actually care if you capture them mid-post hoc, ergo propter hoc.
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But they sure as fuck will use that against you when it's convenient. This is why debating is a lost cause that doesn't scale.
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Anyhow, this article was written in 2001 and I've carried its message with me for a long time.http://articles.latimes.com/2001/mar/26/local/me-42782 …
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(nb: there was a version of this with a graphic ending that didn't make the final cut for the LA Times. I modeled my guardian op-ed from it)
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(nb x2: apparently my anti-fascist praxis involves old af obscure op-eds)
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And this is where pain, experienced as close to the sociopathic behavior as possible, will have the greatest preventive or mitigating effect
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Or greatest pavlovian effect. If we're talking about those who've already abandoned all pretense to morality, Pavlov is all we have left.
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