lol okay yeah the left-wing hunger for retribution is exactly identical to the right-wing hunger, this is a normal thing to postulate
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she's literally mocking as inherently risible the idea of somebody wanting Amy Cooper to get a life sentence for *checks notes* attempting to murder a random Black man for asking her to use public property correctly I don't support the carceral state, but, uh.
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Like I don't think Cooper should have gotten life in prison either but I don't think it's stupid for the hate crime of attempted murder to be considered on the merits of exactly what it is
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oh okay the popularity of the Richard Spencer punching video is indicative of "a situational form of sadism", alright, yeah, because of course
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
Or funny and cathartic to see a nazi punched in the face- if that makes me a sadist
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Replying to @darbehoney @Nymphomachy
I think her point is that "sadism" isn't an evil thing and is a universal human impulse
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
ngl I find the lengths people will commonly go to in order to say that “I am glad this person is being hurt/injured/harmed, it makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside” isn’t ‘sadism’ when they do it because Reasons disturb me more than sadism itself ever could, for p much this reason
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“Actually it doesn’t count as wanting there to be corpses if what I want is dead Nazis”-ass Why Are You Convinced This Defense Is Coherent And Necessary logic when you could just be pro-harm to Nazis but that’d take thinking about more than aesthetics I guess? istg
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Replying to @chrysopoetics @arthur_affect
I mean most primatologists appear to have concluded that we seem to have an innate, biological sense of fairness, I just don't think it's an accurate characterization of appeals to that sense of fairness to call it "sadism"
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Prosociality has a dark side: norm enforcement.
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*as the baboons surround a treed Ned Flanders* Lisa: "Aren't you going to do something?" Zookeeper: "Oh, no, if they don't successfully kill the trespasser it's very bad for their society"
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