I used to believe that people could rationally reach the same conclusions in favor of freedom and other traditional American values if they just had enough information and debate, but then I grew up.https://twitter.com/guypbenson/status/1027697678363369472 …
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Replying to @HbdNrx
Morality is not about facts, but feelings about right and wrong. And politics is really about morality. Take mass migration from the third world for example. Natives are harmed, but immigrants are better-off. Also, in multicultural societies, ethnic disputes tend to be an
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Replying to @FreeSoil20 @HbdNrx
inevitability and you will not argue your way out of the full weight of human nature, at least not with groups other than NW Europeans.
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Also, you're never going to convince everyone to cooperate for a better overall outcome if they can defect to get a better one for themselves.
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Replying to @HbdNrx
Reason for the vast corruption in the third world where individuals acting on what could be considered rational self-interest attempts to gain advantages for themselves and their families, but such a phenomenon ends up seriously deteriorating such societies. If you are the only
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Replying to @FreeSoil20 @HbdNrx
honest individual in these societies, you lose a lot, so it is better not. Now, populations that exhibit trust, honesty, and willingness to contribute to general welfare are being replaced by populations that do not exhibit such characteristics and the result will be predictable.
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