Reasons why people might get mad at you for decoupling:
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is it fair to say the fundamental distinction is "knowledge should be considered apart from its applications and ethical consequences" vs " practical applications and ethical consequences are an integral part of the act of knowing" ?
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Huh, this doesn't resonate with my understanding of it, but think this could be part of it. I think the decoupler description is basically right, and the second one might be one aspect of contextualism, with others being "this is not worth knowing/talking about given the context"
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It resonates with me, which explains why you picked it up from my thread!
I am most often alarmed by decouplers when they show an ignorance of how their thoughts, words and actions could be used to hurt people.
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I'm like "you know what you're saying has historically been used to justify mass murders?" and my interlocutor is like "but what if it's all TRUE?"
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The exact argument of "what you're saying has been used to justify bad things in the past, so you better not say it" has *itself* been used to justify bad things in the past, so it seems kind of self-defeating...
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some peoples deepest desire really is to just hurt a bunch of people they dont like, and they will latch on to ~any reason to do so
as far as im aware the most reliable method of getting permission to do so is to call out a group as bad, identified by superficial traits
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"This can be weaponized."
True.
Now, tell me one thing that's false for.
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19. there is no advice that cannot be creatively weaponized in some way to justify getting back on your bullshit
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