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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 27

    Please, people, only respond to me if you have something to say. If its all going to be vague abstractions & waffly woo, don't bother. I am instituting a new policy - people have three tweets to make a clear point of some kind or they're getting muted.

    6:19 PM - 27 May 2018
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      2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 27

        I'm experiencing a new thing where people who follow because they appreciate my criticism of one kind of waffly woo, ideologically-motivated conspiracy theory or cultural constructivism, are then shocked and surprised that I have no patience for theirs.

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      3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 27

        For anyone who is unclear where I stand on things: I am primarily a liberal humanist - this means I value freedom, universality, equal opportunities and kindness. I am a skeptic - this means I require evidence for things to believe in them.

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      4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 27

        If you appreciate my criticisms of postmodern woo but then expect me to have patience with theological or metaphysical woo, you will be disappointed. If you like my opposition to left-wing identity politics but then expect me to appreciate right-wing identity politics, hard luck.

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      5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 27

        I don't need everybody else to be a liberal humanist or a skeptic or to only talk to me about things which accord with that but at least recognise that I am one.

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      6. End of conversation
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      2. Cynicism, but spooky.‏ @rikcloesen May 27
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Checking to see if I've been muted on the basis of my previous tweets (1/3)

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      3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 27
        Replying to @rikcloesen

        Nope.

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      2. Lucas Wayne Thomas‏ @LucaswayneThom1 May 27
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        I am direly conflicted between humanist assertions of rights and the ecological reality of being an organism on Earth. Not one life form in the history of the universe we now inhabit will provide any evidence we have a right to live. Please help me with this conundrum.

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      3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 27
        Replying to @LucaswayneThom1

        I don't know what that means. Rights are a human concept.

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      4. Michael N‏ @MichaelN1756 May 27
        Replying to @HPluckrose @LucaswayneThom1

        I think Lucas’s difficulty is the tension between valuing human flourishing as the highest good, while at the same time recognizing the catastrophic effect human existence has had on other living things on earth. The answer is there’s no good answer to this.

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      5. Lucas Wayne Thomas‏ @LucaswayneThom1 Jun 4
        Replying to @MichaelN1756 @HPluckrose

        No easy answers, no great hash tags, mantras, or manipulations to be had. Just the persistence of life. In the history of life most ecosystems collapse due to the astounding successes of their apex organisms, which make way for the next. If it was family r we wouldn’t be here.

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      6. Lucas Wayne Thomas‏ @LucaswayneThom1 Jun 4
        Replying to @LucaswayneThom1 @MichaelN1756 @HPluckrose

        *fair

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      2. Matt Roberts‏ @j_razor101 May 27
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Three tweets to make a clear point eh? Challenge accepted....

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      3. Matt Roberts‏ @j_razor101 May 27
        Replying to @j_razor101 @HPluckrose

        The best film ever made is Escape To Victory *tweet 1*

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      4. Matt Roberts‏ @j_razor101 May 27
        Replying to @j_razor101 @HPluckrose

        Evidence: it's about war *&* football. That probably seals the deal but there's more. *tweet 2*

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      5. Matt Roberts‏ @j_razor101 May 27
        Replying to @j_razor101 @HPluckrose

        It stars both Michael Caine & Max Von Sydow. But also, crucially, John Wark of Ipswich Town FIame. Oh, & that Pele bloke. And Ossie. And Bobby Moore. I think we can both agree I've made my point spectacularly within the agreed conditions. Block me at your peril.

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      6. Matt Roberts‏ @j_razor101 May 27
        Replying to @j_razor101 @HPluckrose

        Ah. I wrote "flame" instead of "fame". Mute or block is now understandable.

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      8. Pallor Ergo Doom‏ @SlagOffTwits May 27
        Replying to @SlagOffTwits @j_razor101 @HPluckrose

        Evidence: While a war movie, it isn't about war, but the descent into madness. This is also the theme of twitter. And there is no football. That definitely seals the deal.

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      9. Pallor Ergo Doom‏ @SlagOffTwits May 27
        Replying to @SlagOffTwits @j_razor101 @HPluckrose

        It stars people that actually went insane during the making of the movie, deteriorating health, storms, drugs, bizarre sound effects, and a puppy. Also just like twitter. And inspired an award winning documentary about the insanity. As twitter surely will.

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      1. Hmm‏ @FredAyling May 28
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Ha ha, Helen, it amazes me how behind the curve you are. It’s like you wake up to Twitter some years after everyone else and ask why you’re wasting your time with a whole bunch of conversations that most others would realise are going nowhere from the first reply.

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