More broadly, am I okay with people dying so that others may enjoy these fruits? Yes, of course I am. Everyone is.
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @aintasenatorson and
At some level, we're all okay with trading some (sufficiently low) risk of death, for some (sufficiently high) quality of life.
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @aintasenatorson and
The only debate is over where, EXACTLY, the trade-off points are. But everyone puts them somewhere—however much they bluster to the contrary
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"You aren't afraid of a meteor falling from the sky and striking you in the head every time you go outside are you? Okay, so let me shoot this gun at you and stop being a big baby"
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As I was saying: I was not defending any particular trade-off point; merely pointing out that they exist.
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @arthur_affect and
As I said at the outset, this an exercise in trying to understand the opinions of people who do not already agree with you about everything
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @arthur_affect and
Did you get the impression Arthur doesn't understand the opinions of others just because he vehemently disagrees with them? Maybe he does understand them, and that is why he disagrees so vehemently?
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Replying to @RayTski @arthur_affect and
What he's manifestly unable to do is quarantine his disagreement on separate issues.
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @RayTski and
Lol you actually think you're smart because you've "decoupled" the social safety net "issue" and the somehow entirely separate herd immunity "issue" You haven't listened to a goddamn word I've said
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Replying to @arthur_affect @RayTski and
I haven't listened to all of it, certainly. You type faster than either of us can think
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Wow and you type very slowly and yet your thoughts still have yet to catch up with your tweets
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