this, combined with the fact that we judge other creatures' capacity for suffering by their capacity to induce empathetic suffering in us by their performances, is the pole star around which the politics of the 18th through 21st centuries revolvehttps://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1200985844632342528 …
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Replying to @chaosprime
i mean, that's a useful and clear heuristic so idk that it's...bad?
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Replying to @palecur @chaosprime
Currently thinking about the extent to which a kneejerk contrarian impulse to embrace the alternative the speaker is clearly trying to frame as abhorrent and beyond the discussion's Overton is useful. Definitely *somewhat*, but perhaps my instinct to oppose leans on it too much.
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Replying to @palecur @chaosprime
real enlightenment hours: enlist your instinct to oppose as a means to oppose that very instinct
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