Somehow, I think this transcended even the Libertarians. Like, they deserve a lot of the blame, but it's not even ideological. It was a tantrum, a mass-scale DON'T WANNA that killed hundreds of thousands.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
Like, they also didn't take the libertarian solutions of encouraging masks, etc.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @LususNaturae0 and
The thing is that even ideological anarcho-capitalists still live in a world where other people's actions can affect you, via "the free market" And this childish baby form of libertarianism refuses to even accept that, when the effects are negative
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
Hence these people being fucking *furious* at "fearmongering" that keeps people away from bars and restaurants and brings the stock market down even despite the government demanding these businesses reopen If they could they would actually make it illegal to stay home
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Replying to @arthur_affect @LususNaturae0 and
Yeah. I don't know what it is, but it's a really deep psychological death wish. If anything, it's a kind of infantile form of denial, that the virus only exists because you believe in it, and if you would just SAY it wasn't scary, it couldn't harm you.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
It's probably the single most illuminative aspect of Trumpism, and the psychology behind it, except that I'm nowhere near qualified to actually analyze it.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
That Ernest Becker stuff seems applicable. People are afraid to die, and it soothes them to see other people die, since that presents as a feeling that they have escaped death.
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Replying to @KaviMontanaro @mssilverstein and
I *could* think that. Or, maybe, I'm spitballing here, im concerned our lockdowns will cause more death and suffering now and into the future than the lockdowns. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.oxfam.org/en/world-brink-hunger-pandemic-coronavirus-threatens-push-millions-starvation&ved=2ahUKEwi5zr-0kvbsAhVKeawKHVdzACQQFjAIegQICBAB&usg=AOvVaw3CAH5f1PNj1MRxR51rHuIS …
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Replying to @Reroot_Flyover @KaviMontanaro and
I'm certain you, like many others, have a chain of motivated reasoning you believe in quite strongly that mysteriously happens to say the moral and practical thing to do is also what you personally want to do that would make you happy
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KaviMontanaro and
Can't the same be true of you? Fear of your own health status (as you personally divulged)? Truth is my chances of severe disease from covid are about what they'd be for flu and I've never that drive my existence. This doesn't make me defective....
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One of us is talking about death and one of us is talking about discomfort
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