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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I'm trying to be a good Chamberlinian scientist and so I have multiple working hypotheses (http://science.sciencemag.org/content/148/3671/754 …). One is that there are values at play on the prochoice side that I don't understand or share (perhaps). Another (more interesting, I think) is that . . .
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in any political conflict, there might be a sort of van der Waals force, where intensity from one side induces a proportionate passion from the other that might not otherwise manifest. This second possibility has Broader Implications. Hm
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Replying to @eigenrobot
perceived threats and injuries to sacred objects produce emotion whose intensity is not a function of the magnitude of any concrete harm
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Replying to @teleonomist @eigenrobot
this is the most correct and compact and general explanation you will encounter, i am 100% right
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Replying to @teleonomist
this tweet is absolutely correct but how exactly did this become sacred is maybe whats interesting to me
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Replying to @eigenrobot
how did women become sacred objects? they always were
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