*protect their own strategic interests
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Replying to @Cybren @PlzBeSensible and
The degree to which the Allies didn't actually care about stopping genocide until the Nazis messed with the Allies strategic interest is rather terrifying and shaming.1 reply 4 retweets 43 likes -
If the Allies *had* experienced a knee jerk feeling of horror and disgust towards genocide that was strong enough to propel them to act against the Nazis, we would have been better off. This wasn't the case.
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Fair enough. I still think Arthur Chu's kneejerk sense of disgust towards me, because I like a Jewish blogger who is also liked by people Chu calls "Nazis", is overapplied. In the same way the Nazis had dangerously overapplied disgust for Jews they felt were oppressing them.
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Replying to @PlzBeSensible @Eristae and
Ah, yes, the root cause of Nazism is, of course, the simple existence of negative emotions, without which we would all, by definition, be happy Why did no one else ever think of this solution to societal ills
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PlzBeSensible and
Look, as disgusted as you may be by the emotion of disgust, and as ironic as that may be, as the canonical psychological text Inside Out taught us, disgust is one of the five basic human emotional responses
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PlzBeSensible and
To have a "kneejerk sense of disgust" is to be a functional human being, in particular to have a functional moral sense Indeed, disgust and morality are synonymous - the act of moral judgment is merely an abstraction, the lived experience of which is the feeling of disgust
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PlzBeSensible and
(Emotivism is correct, motherfuckers)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PlzBeSensible and
So … what do we say to those who experience knee-jerk disgust at homosexuality or transgenderism?
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It's that simple Scott and his friends feel disgust towards me, even if they won't admit it (and a lot of them actually do admit it) They are wrong, because I'm awesome
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Replying to @GrmnDmcrtcRbt @mileshuman and
It's because they have poop for brains
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