Don't be the adult in a room full of very angry kids with base ball bats. In that case try to be the adult in a different room.
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Replying to @Plinz @lukedowning and
Personally, I'd prefer body armour, shield, baton and handcuffs, followed by lecture on "this is why I'm not bleeding and you are"... but then, I always was for improving education...
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Replying to @TREdwardCullen @lukedowning and
Of course they would learn from this: how to fight more effectively. But are you sure that you want to the country to take a trajectory that ends with prison camps for your or their side?
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Replying to @Plinz @lukedowning and
Possibly. Or, maybe they'd learn that speech is not violence and they should be glad that it isn't, because when they unshackle someone big, mean, ugly and *smart*, they will find themselves on the losing end? There's a reason SENSIBLE people avoid violence...
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Replying to @TREdwardCullen @lukedowning and
Sensible people may rationally resort to irrational arguments and violence if they cannot hope to win using reason and civility.
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Replying to @Plinz @TREdwardCullen and
that's an epistemological and ethical garbage statement, and an admission of surrender to ideology as a political religion. SAD!!
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Replying to @lukedowning @TREdwardCullen and
No, seriously, I find it impossible to make a moral case for asking people to submit to the rationalism of a system in which you are going to lose if they do. Even if the system is truthful, and I serve truth myself.
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Replying to @Plinz @TREdwardCullen and
a) why are you making a moral case on behalf of others with their own individual agency, b) under what pretense is an assumption that any individual using their own agency is automated to fail because of your interjectory assumptions?
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Replying to @lukedowning @TREdwardCullen and
Truthful emulation of other perspectives is the only way to negotiate moral differences. World views result from starting point and biographical trajectories you take afterwards, not from innate goodness and badness.
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Replying to @Plinz @TREdwardCullen and
So emulating a perspective that I conclude of utility because it enhances my personal status is a viable ethical position?
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I don't think that a perspective that asks other to give up their own moral integrity is compatible with treating them as moral subjects. A position where someone enhances their status to support themselves and their loved ones at my expense can have integrity.
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