theory: the same moderate, reasonable points they made that attracted you to them also caused them to receive wave upon wave of criticism and pressure-campaigns from rabid shit-spewing extremists and these bluechecks eventually capitulate to.
a combination of greed and pride, if you're into the whole deadly sins metaphor
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technically those aren't sins, they're capital vices, capital as in the source and wellspring. so lust isn't inherently sinful but rather a source of sinful behaviors
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when I was like 20 I wrote an entire set of blogposts titled "how to hack the deadly sins", where the argument in each case was that each sin was basically an impulse or drive, and could be channeled constructively or destructively. I was super proud of it
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oh man I remember having thoughts along those lines at that age too, though I didn't assemble then into a coherent effortpost.
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Sonya, you will probably enjoy this a lothttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0WZx7lUOrY …
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I'm trying to remember if its that lecture or another one in the same series where he goes pretty deep on primate mating strategies. talks about two distinct regimes: "tournament" mating and pair-bonding. almost all primates are clearly one or the other. humans do both.
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