The precautionary principle, civilization-killing poison meme, is now marshaling its forces against your sex lifehttps://twitter.com/ENBrown/status/1004382731541925888 …
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Meanwhile, in real life, it seems to be loved mainly by the kind of people who think they're allergic to wifi.
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by real life you mean "that corner of the internet I go to to get my rage dose for the day"?
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nah, there are plenty dangerous idiots leveraging "precautionary principle" Hell, a solid chunk of anti gay marriage people (smarter ones) in USistan were all "muh chesterton fence/muh precationary principle"
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I suppose you're right that they sometimes co-opt that language. That doesn't mean they're actually practicing the principle in any meaningful sense. Assholes will use all kinds of misdirection to conceal their true motive: to enforce their will on others.
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but, narrowly, the argument "fits" (gay marriage SOMEHOW causing implosion of society is far fetched but not impossible and falls squarely into muddy precautionary waters) Also, I doubt anyone does PP consistently (okay, unless we use a more constrained version like you proposed)
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inconsistency is a consistent theme in human affairs I don't want to have a back-and-forth on what people mean when they say "precautionary principle". how charitably we attempt to read the minds of others is a function of mood and caffeine level mostly.
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I dunno, of all PP advocates, the number of people who go for constraining the googlable definition (like you do) is, uh... I'd say 10 percentish among people I run into online and offline, defo much less if offline only.
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I am ready to grant more charity when I see it warranted (as with you) but after a certain amount of idiotic "GMO risks ROOOEEEEN, heed the PP" takes a certain baseline expectation is established.
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well, then maybe it should have been formulated ... more cautiously :-p
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