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31/ off on a tangent, the core problem here is that progressives have a few ethical concerns: - we should be nice to blacks - we should be nice to women - we should be nice to LGBT sexual minorities ok, fine but then, because they come from a materialist "ethical" tradition >
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32/ They define worth and value in instrumental terms. A person has value to the degree that they're smart. A person has value to the degree that they're strong. A person has value if their career is "productive" and exciting.
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33/ ...so now, they've painted themselves into a corner, and picked a fight that they had absolutely no need to get involved in. Q: Do people have value? prog: if they're smart, yes. Q: Blacks have value, right? prog: OF COURSE!!! BECAUSE THEY'RE SMART !!!!
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34/ Q: Do people have value? prog: if they have productive careers, yes. Q: Women have value, right? prog: OF COURSE!!! BECAUSE THEY HAVE PRODUCTIVE CAREERS!!!!!
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35/ But having ripped out the leg of the stool labelled either "Christian compassion" or "the natural worth of all humans", and substituted a CONDITIONAL argument for it, they HAVE TO defend the condition as being true.
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36/ ...and, sadly for them, the evidence fails - at every turn - to support their wild, made-up ad-hoc claims. Which then means that progressive arguments fall apart, all the data betrays them, and the only thing they have left is social shaming and screaming.
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38/ ALWAYS READ THE COMMENTS (at
@Isegoria 's blog) > You find a chick that does time-distance-direction, and I’ll show you a lesbian.https://twitter.com/Isegoria/status/1435662349688573961 …
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39/ I am not remotely telling people not to play TTRPGs this way. Hell, I'm even SUPPORTING a guy who writes these RPGs; I bought his first RPG and knew exactly what his politics were, then I bought his second one. But I have ** MY ** fun by analyzing.https://twitter.com/sound_hologram/status/1435663369034366977 …
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40/ > I will have as many non-male whalers/pirates in game as I like 100% fine by me ; I'm not trying to make gender denialism illegal, it just amuses me.https://twitter.com/MammaFerus/status/1435663095268052995 …
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43/ The fact that a guy who wrote an RPG about rebelling against the government is upset that I said that rebelling against the government is OK is, frankly, hilarious
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44/ This is a good rebuttal of the points I raised. Thank you.https://twitter.com/panarin_misha/status/1435689914138611726 …
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