And you have nailed the next step in the argument! "Radical islamists just hate freedom and want to destroy us. Asking whether the rise of a rancid ideology is in any way connected to underlying structural causes can't possibly help and guts our resolve to shut down the threat."
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Well, that's not entirely crazy honestly. I mean you have this liberal faith that everything is just a matter of finding a rational administrative solution. That there's a structural cause we can tinker with. Some people are just existential enemies.
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Replying to @lionel_trolling @willwilkinson and
I wouldn't foreclose asking the questions, but also don't assume you are gonna get the answer you want.
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The problem is already starting, "oh, maybe theres some way to deal with their grievances, maybe we can find an administrative solution, more sex workers, robots, etc." Well maybe they are belligerent misogynists and can't accept our society?
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I find it amusing that this entire threat is premised on the assumption that Ross is proposing to "solve the incel problem by providing them with sex robots" when that isn't his point at all. As if people have lost the ability to read without jumping to an occasion for outrage.
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He's saying it's going to be an administrative or political question in the future is he not?
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It's a prediction of sorts in order to think through an issue. But he's not advocating for it.
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He's implicitly advocating for a rollback of the sexual revolution and a return to stronger norms/laws against sex outside of marriage, and easy divorce. I don't like it, but it's a reasonable and totally familiar religious conservative position.
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My reading is that Douthat has created an either/or scenario: either return to traditional Christianity or sex robots. My objection is that I don't think those are the only options (because problem isn't lack of sex but misogyny).
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Well, we will have sex robots. Returning to Christianity is possible, too. Whether there's a third option is an open question.
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I'm pretty sure that neo-Medieval Europe & Westworld don't exhaust the number of possible human futures.
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The Holodeck is kind of the sex robots option.
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