But it's also a mistake to assume that people with a specific focus are doing that. Specialisation is efficient.
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We tend to focus most on problems we have experience and knowledge of. Doesn't require believing they're the only ones that exist.
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Or even the biggest problems. Someone can devote their life to the right to die with dignity but know that climate change is a bigger deal.
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But almost no-one makes the mistake of thinking they don't know this. That happens when there is assumed to be a 'side' to take.
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Hence whataboutism. If you criticise Islam, must think Christianity is great. If you criticise left, you must think no problem with right.
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But not all criticism of imbalance is whataboutism, obviously. Some people really do see a societal problem as one-sided.
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But I get annoyed when people tell me what I must focus on. I focus on things I understand best and which interest me.
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I focus on things I think many well-intentioned people are misunderstanding & make arguments for how they should be understood.
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I study religion & gender ideologies. I find them interesting. I find leftist wrongness about them more interesting than rightist wrongness.
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Mostly coz I'm sympathetic to traditionally left-liberal aims. I want religious freedom upheld but horrible religious ideas to be criticised
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I want legal equality on the grounds of gender and for restrictive gender roles to be criticised & rejection of them normalised.
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It is very easy to counter rightist extremes who want one religion held sacred & others or non-religion condemned.
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Also easy to show the problem with extreme social conservatives who would enforce 'traditional' gender roles by law or harsh social pressure
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Much more complicated when leftists do this or equivalent because their rationale is based on values I share but their approach is all wrong
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This requires much more unpicking & pointing out of failures of core liberal principles & counterproductive methods & unwanted consequences
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Very frustrating when people see criticism of Right as a sign of commitment to Left but trying to fix Left as secret support for Right.
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Although, I do have more in common with liberal centre-rightists than illiberal far-leftists & think they're best hope for fixing far-right.
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In my ideal world, we would have a reasonable centre-left government kept honest & balanced by reasonable centre-right input.
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