Reminder: "pro-life" is simply a contraction of "pro life". If you're anti pro-life, it means you ARE DEFENDING death. ...or, maybe, just maybe, political movements are more nuanced and complicated in their goals than 6-7 letter abbreviation might suggest? https://twitter.com/cstross/status/1345414560191291392 …
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4/ anyway, going meta for a moment: I think it's fair to let a political group define what they're in favor of. I disagree with pro-choice people, but I think that they are legitimately motivated by favoring choice. It's unfair to re-label them pro-death. And I'd hope that
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5/ an intellectually honest pro-choicer would admit that the pro-life folks are motivated by life [ even if, in the views of the pro-choicer, they're bat-crap crazy and wrong about fetuses being living human beings ]. So: some deference is due to the self definition of tribes
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6/ I believe that ecologists want to save the environment, and it's unfair to call them "anti-human". I believe that marketing folks want to find win/wins where firms sell more and consumers get products they want (not that they want to fill oceans with plastic). etc.
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7/ ...but this deference is PARTIAL, not absolute. I will concede that the pro-choicer cares about choice, and that the pro-lifer cares about life ... but neither of those claims gets FULL deference, to the point of destroying any deference to the other side. TLDR:
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8/ self definition is a defensive tool, not an offensive one. Anyway, anyone making a "the label says X, so it's absolutely X, and if you disagree you're anti-X" argument is challenged to explain the DPRK ( Democratic People's Republic of Korea) and its prison camps.
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9/ OH SNAP, this is about the most epic rebuttal of the
@cstross tweet one could imaginehttps://twitter.com/ProfFeynman/status/899963856549625858 …
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Kind of shocked that people aren't distancing themselves from antifa since that killing in Portland. It's funny how one bad apple is taken as representative of some groups but not others.
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