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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Replying to @arthur_affect @avram and
They totally didn't just send them to Naath where the other Black character comes from and completely forget about the thing where the toxic butterflies kill all foreigners I'm sure it all worked out
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Replying to @arthur_affect @avram and
Of course, I'm just an angry SJW nitpicker, which is why this is a minority opinion and the ending of Game of Thrones was so universally beloved and praised, to my great frustration as a lonely outnumbered critic
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Replying to @arthur_affect @avram and
Making the point that no one person, not even the seemingly best candidate, is fit to decide what is right and wrong by decree, without debate, is one of the few things I feel the GoT finale got right
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Replying to @BotondBallo @arthur_affect and
Arthur has no power to back up a decree. If we each have the right to decide right and wrong for ourselves, then Arthur must have the right to decide that giving eugenacists the benefit of public debate is wrong.
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Replying to @avram @arthur_affect and
Recall that the original premise of this discussion was being "first-to-punch" even if someone merely had an offending viewpoint in their "decision tree". (1/4)
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Replying to @BotondBallo @avram and
So consider a person who has not yet come to a moral conclusion about a question related to (using your example) eugenics, and thus by definition has supporting it in their decision tree. (2/4)
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Replying to @BotondBallo @avram and
Is "punching" them (which I'm interpreting in this context as e.g. an immediate ban from an online community) the most productive approach? Or would something more rehabilitative, which could include convincing them via debate, be more productive? (3/4)
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Replying to @BotondBallo @avram and
I see an analogy to criminal justice reform (incarceration vs. rehabilitation) here. (4/4)
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Replying to @BotondBallo @avram and
Nah if you send someone to prison you have to pay to keep them locked up and fed Social ostracism is a much older, decentralized and voluntary punitive technology
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Jfc "rehabilitation" You know even in the most radical visions of restorative justice it's not justice to let the offender *debate* whether what he did was wrong ad infinitum until he's *convinced*
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