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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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    1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 6

      I am very interested in the psychology of people who present this odd mixture of abusiveness and pseudo-intellectualism. Their drive is clearly to cause upset at the same time as being recognised as intellectually superior. I don't understand it.

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    2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 6

      I understand desperately wanting other people to think you are smart, obviously. That's often born of a simple insecurity. I don't understand wanting people to hate you at the same time. This suggests a very twisted psychology to me but it seems to be quite common.

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    3. Phil McCutchen‏ @PastorPhilBCC May 6
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      I’m not trying to push religion on u when I promote the need for an external ethos. Hate religion, fine, but we seem to require a formulated set of rules to regulate our irrationality & hatefulness.

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    4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 6
      Replying to @PastorPhilBCC

      That's why we keep inventing them. Obviously, you will think your rules are external but I think they're just one set of guidelines made up by humans.

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    5. Phil McCutchen‏ @PastorPhilBCC May 6
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      Perhaps a powerful ethos such as “Love your neighbor as yourself, “ would have been a better way for me to have said that, rather than, “rules.”

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 6
      Replying to @PastorPhilBCC

      That's the golden rule which seems to come up in all cultures because reciprocity and empathy are innate to us.

      1:58 PM - 6 May 2018
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        2. Phil McCutchen‏ @PastorPhilBCC May 6
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          “Innate?” Do we need to be admonished toward behaviors that are innate?

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        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 6
          Replying to @PastorPhilBCC

          Yes, very often we do. We have other self-serving behaviours too. Morality is when we verbalise why we should prioritise the good ones.

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