I'm not hugely optimistic that we'll ever perfect equal opportunity, freedom of belief and expression, safeguarding the dignity and rights of the individual regardless of race/gender/sexuality, science, reason & progress. I just think trying to is better than not trying to.https://twitter.com/AnglerFishLure/status/954716281416093698 …
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"I'm not hugely optimistic that we'll ever perfect equal opportunity, freedom of belief and expression, safeguarding the dignity and rights of the individual regardless of race/gender/sexuality..." If you've since managed to perfect all three since, more power to you.
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No, they're not perfect. I still have them tho.
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In that case, I recommend giving up on perfecting dignity. It's relevance to determining credit risk declines generation after generation, so not sure why I have to mortgage freedom and opportunity to preserve the honor of folks I don't even like.
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I have no idea what you're talking about. It doesn't seem to relate to anything I have said but maybe the opposite. By safeguarding the dignity & rights of the individual, I mean valuing the individual rather than the tribe. A default that they should have rights & autonomy.
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Then I mistook your use of "dignity" to convey something other than rhetorical flourish when married with "rights," and for that I apologize.
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It feels like you really want to have a problem with what I am saying but can't figure out what exactly. Perhaps you could spell out very clearly what you think is our point of disagreement?
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Was clear from the get go. In the triad of opportunity, freedom and dignity, something has to give. I elected dignity. But your point actually concerned "dignity and rights," which apparently deals with something other than dignity proper, I acknowledge my tangent and withdraw.
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OK. I also mentioned, science, reason and progress so I wasn't sure which three. I'm not sure why something would have to give tho. People must have the freedom not to have dignity, obviously and the consequences of not respecting someone else's are mostly social.
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