this is the point that gets me. so close to understandinghttps://twitter.com/pookleblinky/status/824123823566061570 …
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Replying to @alicemazzy @ClarkHat
"not doing it for the same reason" it was done for *exactly* the same reason: imposition of a culture on a subject population
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Replying to @alicemazzy @ClarkHat
the merits of the thing in itself are entirely separable, the *methods* of forcing adherence work for arbitrary world-systems
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Replying to @alicemazzy @ClarkHat
most progs aren't sufficiently self-critical/detached enough to even have this conversation but: separate the enforcement...
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Replying to @alicemazzy @ClarkHat
...mechanism and debate the merits of the culture itself to determine whether it is worth forcing on a population
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Replying to @alicemazzy @ClarkHat
I see a split between two ways of interpreting the world, content-based and process-based
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content-based is "x opinion is unacceptable" and process-based is "treat all opinions the same"
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it sounds facile but that way, but I really think that leads to factions arguing around each other
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Replying to @sonyaellenmann @ClarkHat
this sounds like universalism vs relativism to me, and tbh I disagree with both
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I don't think there's an objective basis, but I also don't think that means they're all equally valid or true
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you can define metrics and compare cultures against each other, and some are overall better than others
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