gosh this is such a bummer to read yeah any policy implemented at scale, no matter how well designed, is going to have some bad results some subset of such policies is worth implementing anyway because the net benefits in some sense outweigh the net costshttps://twitter.com/alexandraerin/status/1004400861865488384 …
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this hits me personally, for sure I've lost very close people who won't talk to me because I want to sit out the culture wars. It's their life now and I don't understand it, and I think I fear what it might represent or portend
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even in modern times the US (the world) has been through some Shit and none of that seemed to be accompanied by a--I don't know, systematic dissolution of small-scale society, of families and friendships our natural and Meaningful choiceless bonds
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when I read about social disasters--Totalitarianism in Russia or China, say--and hear that children reported their parents, or friends condemned each other for crowds, it feels like a kind of blasphemy; a violation of something sacred and more especially evil than simple murder
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I guess what I'm trying to say is, contra OP, please be kind to your friends and neighbors and family and loved ones, even and especially the ones who are Wrong and Bad sans that I'm not sure there's anything left for Policy to save /finhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/879352273976950786 …
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You’re making her sound like a Scientologist. You’ve never decided to deprecate an acquaintanceship on the grounds of political or social value drift?
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I have literally never done this or even considered it
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Then you are a profoundly good person. I am not.
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well, per dear departed
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I had no idea that Grognor had abandoned ship. Hrmf.
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Any policy implemented at scale, no matter how well designed, is going to have some bad results. some subset of such policies is worth implementing anyway because the net benefits outweigh the net costs. Therefore, implement the policy of shunning people who support monsters?
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I'm not sure what you want when you rejustify implementing the political policy that you are protesting against in the first tweet of your thread, and you then cite the trolley problem, a brilliant demo of people's status quo bias, even when it leads to clearly evil results?
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It does infer a new kind of purity, doesn’t it?
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rather the implication that supporting a policy leaves one responsible for all of its gross costs if i pull the lever and save five lives, ought I be condemned for the one who died? generalize "yes" and the only way to avoid culpability is to avoid power altogether
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so close...
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but that's just another lever pulled at an earlier node in the extensive form :(
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i dont know, i try to stay ignorant of polls that seems plausible tho
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one way you might interpret the thread is a plea for a very narrow criterion for ideological monster status, especially for long-standing personal ties
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