it should tell you something about what a rudderless charlatan he is, that he was so quick to shrug off his whole thesis on the necessity of hierarchy, responsibility and self-betterment to endorse the social provision of partners, lol
And if you're talking about politics, that's a common and normal meaning. If you're talking about social forms, like, say, Jordan Peterson, it's necessary for "social" to mean "social", not "state".
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Could you expand on where "social forms" end and policy begins? How is the form implemented?
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Are you seriously asking me what society is, and whether there is any society outside the state? I'm not an expert, but I'm pretty sure there is.
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If you're hung up on the word "policy", substitute it for community practice, then. Or common law. Or manners. What I'm saying is that he always dances around expressing in concrete terms what he wants to see happen.
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He lets people quizzically infer what he means, then either says "maybe!" or "no not that, silly"
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Well I'm either going to have to find out what he actually said or agree with you he was very vague, so it's much easier to agree with you. But that doesn't even begin to imply he "shrugged off his whole thesis on the necessity of hierarchy, responsibility and self-betterment".
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because beyond the task of making oneself a responsible and desirable partner, he said both in the profile and in his response blog that society has a role to play in managing the men who fail to find partners. Okay, sure! But all the latter blog does is retreat to a passive tonepic.twitter.com/7t0Gg61tNn
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Now, I wrote that reply to you before his response blog. If he could be clearer about how society should "assist" men who can't find girlfriends, maybe I'd need to reassess what I said. But it did seem to me to contradict his message of personal responsibility.
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Is that left quote a summary, or indirect quotation? Either way, society working to make sure "those men" get married doesn't seem to rule out putting social pressure on the men to be more responsible.
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