It's not that banning hugging is "worse" than torturing children to death like the Nazi's did. Evil is not so constrained that it can only operate on a single continuum. It's that it's so damn *creative*. You really have to *think* about how to achieve that level of horror.
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To understand the horror of banning children from hugging, you have to really *get into the mind of a child*, be some fucked up alternate universe Fred Rogers. And then know you'll get away with it. Fucking monsters.
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Fred Rogers. Dolores Umbridge. Jesus. This is how minds work, we encapsulate philosophies in characters who may or may not even have existed. At the end of the day *other people* are characters to all of us, and honestly I can model fictional characters better than real ones.
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Replying to @Pinboard
You're trying to make some point through a remarkably obtuse metaphor.
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I think that somehow via Nazis and JK Rowling you have maneuvered yourself into a rhetorical corner that it would be challenging to tweet one's way free of.
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Lol, even when I say “this isn’t Nazi”, you get all the people with automatic Nazi arguments. And with Harry Potter you get “I read more books than you” stealth bragging. Digging through the reflex reactions is just another part of how Twitter is kinda broken.
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But I DO understand your metaphor now!
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Score another victory for Habermasian public discourse!
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So if you are so proud of how you think you will be seen to have acted in the hindsight of history, why aren't you joining my February, 2016 call for a general strike?
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Because we did not have the power to make a general strike happen, and you should not call for something like that if you can't make it happen.
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The probability depends on the choices of others. Under your logic, voting is a waste of time.
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