I've recently encountered two groups of (I kid in part) neo-Scholastics. The first group thinks that, if you define "sexuality" to have a moral component, you can remove any social problems which may arise from immoral aspects of sexuality (under the dictionary definition). The
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I can't speak for everyone. Re: the "pedophilia is not sexuality" people, I presume they want to say pedophilia is bad and should be punished and other forms of sexuality, which don't involve questionable or absent consent, are good and should not be punished. I'm fine with that.
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Re: the "many things that do not seem to be politics ARE politics crowd," I'm uncertain. I just don't know enough. But I'd know more if they just said what they wanted to say, rather than trying to define various things as politics.
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maybe it's just a confusion about what it means for an idea to have cultural presence? if it's there at all, if you can reference an idea without having to first explain it to someone, it has cultural presence. anything with presence is subject to some degree of politics.
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Maybe? I really don't know. If people want to say that X is bad because Y, I don't see how identifying "X" as "being politics" or "being about politics" helps, unless something intrinsic about politics drives the argument. But I likely lack pertinent context.
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