Looking forward to you alternative for the precautionary principle. Also, research doesn't make policy. Lastly, we already have sex robots, they're called vibrators and fleshlights.
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Replying to @whvholst @puellavulnerata
alternative to precautionary principle is "not having paranoia" P.S.: Nobody has proven that you can't parrot-basilisk people via an animated gif, so we should be really cautious about pixels on screens
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the precautionary principle should't be taken to mean "don't do this it might be bad/scary/evil" but rather "let's do this, but like, stand behind a blast shield just in case"
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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've always been an outlier
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