"Dogmatic" is what hypocrites and the mentally sloppy call people with more morals, IQ, or self discipline than themselves.
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@MorlockP People (particularly in nrxn/rationalist circles) like to quote it as a slamdunk on complaints of hypocrisy.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@MorlockP Problem with that is that it ignores the context of the critique, and ironically thus the substance of the critique, as follows:Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@MorlockP Stephenson's neo-Victorian character notes that hypocrisy is perfectly reasonable and prosocial behavior--WITHIN neo-Victorianism.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@MorlockP i.e. it specifically locates hypocrisy in the context of a consistent and uniform social order, and defends it from there.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@MorlockP But the critique fails badly in a liberal social order, i.e. the one actual readers live in. The liberal order is a metamorality--Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@MorlockP --a set of codes for navigating social interactions with people who *don't share* your morality. Hypocrisy is corrosive there.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@MorlockP By signaling one code & following another, the hypocrite is signal jamming and wasting people's time. THAT's what's wrong with it.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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