your experience of conservatives is of people not concerned with what kind of person things imply they are remarkable
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Replying to @chaosprime
I mean, yeah I said it's not exactly conservatism for that sort of reason, but a prioritisation of personal satisfaction and a smaller radius of care seems to be a key part of conservative thought.
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Replying to @CyrusOfHearts @chaosprime
To be fair, in my highly liberal neighborhood accepting the label of conservative requires a divestment of any caring about what your peers think, which I guess may be reversed in other places. I think the point of increased selfishness stands tho
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Replying to @CyrusOfHearts
could be. as you say, your social context is one where people are acting under immense social pressure to pretend to be less selfish than they are so as to appear to be the right kind of person. i wonder if that social context is as predominant as it appears in media
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Replying to @chaosprime
if there are actually numerically more people acting under pressure to pretend to be more callous than they are, it might go otherwise than you think overall
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Replying to @CyrusOfHearts
*nodnod* weird how immersion in milieux of compassion and unselfishness convinces people that other people are loathsome and will only ever act decently through being coerced
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Replying to @chaosprime
Eh, silly to get so invested in such a single dimensional hypothetical. My original point stands: social approval is a primary motivator in the overturning of established oppression, particularly against minorities. Hatred of the other fulfils humans in the way you describe.
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Replying to @chaosprime
Hey man I'm admitting something not super ultra wonderful about myself here. You could give me a little cred.
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oh, honestly i'm so used to people talking about ~those people~ when assigning that kind of dynamic i hadn't processed it that way. you do indeed deserve props for that and thank you for bringing it to my attention 
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Replying to @CyrusOfHearts
the unwashed masses who aren't as noble of spirit as us in this conversation or whatever i mean, fairly washed unwashed masses if we're talking about nice liberal parts of major metropolitan areas, certainly
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