Marketers do this. Clickbait shitheaps like Polygon do this. Hate sites like Stormfront do this. *And it's the same God-damned thing.* 13/
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whereas obviously some B people do A but it'd be ridiculous to generalize that to all B people
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it's a "Bad argument".
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sure. that isn't a conspiracy. it's just people having categories of epistemic certainty.
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and, i mean, there are powerful monkey self-interest reasons for why they have those categories, no question
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but it's a rare bird who's aware they're refusing to question a thing because it'd make them unable to mouth shibboleths
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I think at some level people know "I'm saying this because it's required for social standing in my group"
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i really don't think so honestly, i think they're mostly saying what feels right and good
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which they have been conditioned to feel that way about using social standing in their group as carrot and stick
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