I've been chewing on a thing and I want to write about it a bit but I need to, sadly, expose my object level beliefs in advance so that I am really clearly understood at the meta. I do not have strong feelings about abortion policy, apart from a very hard preference . . .
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for the continued legality of technology-assisted reproduction and associated research. Okay. SO that out of the way . . . I'm puzzled by the intensity of feelings about this matter from the prochoice camp. If you believe that abortion is murder, it makes a lot of sense to me
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that your advocacy against abortion would be strident and encompassing. I don't think there's much to explain there. What I don't entirely understand (and I am not dismissing, rather trying to grapple with) the proportionate sentimental intensity from the prochoice camp.
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Replying to @eigenrobot
I believe it’s the same phenom as libertarians telling helicopter jokes: you want to show the ingroup you’re more serious than average, so there’s runaway selection.
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ahhhh yeah, good third hypothesis outgroup vs ingroup induced passion
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