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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