Is it OK to discriminate against people who hold political views you think demonstrate a lack of regard for others, in your personal life?
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Replying to @robertwiblin @mmt_lvt
Some of my good friends hold political views that I see as folly. I judge them as individuals, not by their politics. Of course sometimes that politics finds its way into personal issues, at which point it's fair to judge.
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Replying to @RokoMijicUK @mmt_lvt
"I judge them as individuals, not by their politics." Judging them by their politics IS judging them as individuals! I see zero tension here.
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Replying to @robertwiblin @mmt_lvt
Most people's politics are purchased off the shelf and are really a function of what their social group assigns status to. Go 500 years backwards or forwards in time and you'd find everyone's politics repugnant, but in personal matters individuals would still vary and matter.
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Replying to @RokoMijicUK @mmt_lvt
You're still using their politics to judge them, just with more context on how to interpret. The idea that someone politics is rarely informative about how smart or compassionate they are, or that you shouldn't use that information for some reason, is wild to me.
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in my experience it's easy to think up reasons why politics is informative about smarts/compassion that sound plausible in theory but that don't actually let you predict smarts/compassion well outside politics
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It does *somewhat*, especially if as Rob said you take context into account. Wealthy people in e.g. ancient Rome all had slaves. But they weren't all horrible monsters. Most likely some of them treated their slaves well & with compassion. Those were the good ones.
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you can mostly just observe smarts and compassion directly, and conditional on those observations, politics will be mostly uninformative about them "i won't date nazis because naziism is evil" is fine, and i don't see the need to confabulate it being about other traits
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if someone gives every indication of having average intelligence and compassion, and then you find out they're a nazi, it probably means they're a nazi of average intelligence and compassion. so just dislike them for being a nazi instead of for lacking intelligence or compassion
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