To use more of Scott and Eliezer's beloved Star Wars references, when Greedo stands there talking about carefully weighing the cost/benefit analysis of taking you to Jabba alive rather than shooting you now, you only keep him talking long enough to draw under the table
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Replying to @arthur_affect @cowtung and
You don't fucking wait for him to decide You don't let him come to some kind of intellectual decision If him attacking you is *anywhere* in his "decision space" you cut that shit off by any method you have to hand, as fast and as hard as you can
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Replying to @arthur_affect @cowtung and
Much like how cops are trained to shoot as soon as they believe a suspect attacking them is anywhere in the suspect's decision space? Yeah, that's been turning out real well.
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Replying to @BotondBallo @arthur_affect and
Yes, mocking some internet goofball’s long, tedious justification of racism is *exactly* like a cop killing some kid in a park for playing with a toy.
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Replying to @avram @arthur_affect and
My point is that being convinced that holding views you disagree with is "completely out of their decision space" is an unhelpfully high standard for engaging in reasoned discourse with someone. It's a recipe for building echo chambers, rather than an actual exchange of ideas.
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BotondBallo and
The purpose is to prevent evil ideas from being exchanged The goal, if you call that an "echo chamber", is to build a chamber that fills the world That's what "Never Again" means, it means NEVER
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Replying to @arthur_affect @avram and
This rhetoric reminds me strongly of the following conversation: "It's not easy to see something that's never been before. A good world." "How do you know? How do you know what will be good?" "Because I know what is good" (1/2)
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Replying to @BotondBallo @arthur_affect and
"What about everyone else? All the other people who think they know what's good." "They don't get to choose." Perhaps you recognize where this conversation is from. (2/2)
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Replying to @BotondBallo @arthur_affect and
That’s from that TV show that decided that the woman who went around freeing slaves was ultimately the villain, right?
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Yeah arguing for milquetoast liberal tolerance based on a work of fiction written by milquetoast liberals isn't much of an argument, except for the thesis that Hollywood is filled with milquetoast liberals
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Replying to @arthur_affect @avram and
It's the same guys who were gonna do a TV show about an alternate universe where chattel slavery never ended and we get to see what a high-tech 21st-century Confederate States of America would look like How exciting, how fun Lots of morally gray dilemmas I'm sure
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Replying to @arthur_affect @avram and
I like how the Game of Thrones finale was so interested in these difficult themes of slavery and oppression that it gave us a detailed, thoughtful explanation of what the fuck happened to the Unsullied after Daenerys dies
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