People perform mental gymnastics to support ideas inconsistent with their principles coz they want to support the rights of the idea holders
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Replying to @HPluckrose
But if a principle 1 holds *is* the support of others rights, regardless of their own principles, it's simply a self-conflict. Gymnastics?
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Replying to @CBLK08
Yes, when people aren't satisfied with saying 'I support your right to do this thing' but feel they must support the thing itself.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @CBLK08
This is the 'right to choice' and 'rightness of choice' conflation I am talking about.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @CBLK08
Not just 'I support your right to wear a burqa' but supporting gender-specific modesty codes in 1 culture that you'd normally condemn.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
has itself been politicized in a "conservative" effort to defund it! So who undertakes public education for the public welfare?! No one. 3.
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Replying to @CBLK08
I think we have strayed way from the point. Do you think we can support rights to ideas but still be very critical of the ideas?
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Replying to @HPluckrose
On that question, but again with the caveat: do no harm. In a moralist universe "do no harm" is impossible because moralism is authoritarian
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Replying to @CBLK08
I'm not sure what that is a response to. Do you see a difference between supporting rights to ideas & supporting the ideas themselves?
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I'm taking it to the next step. Ideas have consequences. People act on them. I support any idea, anybright to have it, not any right to act.
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That's a different issue and one we can agree on. Actions that harm people shouldn't be legal.
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