if you ever wonder what my evil self-interested motive is for harping on moderating how we treat the outgroup, especially the freshly minted outgroup, it's the conviction i've had since i was a tiny child that any social group will sooner or later turn on me like a pack of wolves
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but anything i see you doing to someone you're cancelling is something i know in my bones you will one day be doing to me. so i take it a little personally, it being only by the grace of God that i do not go thus *right now*. maybe this is irrational at this point maybe
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It's also naive to appeal to the conscience of revolutionaries. Don't wanna get guillotined? Then don't hang around those types.
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tbh my experience isn't that revolutionaries are a homogeneous group the ones who are revolutionaries out of despair are a much nicer lot than the ones who are revolutionaries out of power-hunger
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i'm more of a fatalist
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i can see how one would envy dogs in that event
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