*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
This is how homophobes and transphobes justify themselves though. LGBT supporters may have started out feeling uneasy around gay and trans people, but changed those feelings. Disgust can inform morality, but in a lot of cases the reverse is better.
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Replying to @Hari_Narayan_SK @PlzBeSensible and
I'm not saying emotion "informs" morality, I'm saying it IS morality, that the two things are equivalent and people deny this fact What you are disgusted by - or angered by, or afraid of - IS what your morality is, whether or not you consciously admit it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Hari_Narayan_SK and
Your morality can change, and indeed MUST change over time if you're ever to become a better person than you are right now That entails your emotions changing One can't happen without the other, and the great delusion of the "rationalism" bros is the idea that they're separable
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This is exactly why people are locked in this fight over "SJWs going too far" "I'm not comfortable with LGBT stuff myself, but I'm willing to intellectually agree that you deserve rights, isn't that good enough for you" Of course not
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Hari_Narayan_SK and
It's a good *starting point* but if that's an accurate description of where you are what it means is your morals *haven't actually changed* Your verbal *description* of your morals have changed, probably because you emotionally need to maintain friendly relations with me asking
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Hari_Narayan_SK and
But when push comes to shove if you actually have to make a choice you are very likely to crumple Nobody stands up for something based on what they intellectually assent to but emotionally just aren't comfortable with
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