I don't have strong opinions about the policies in question generally however people can reasonably disagree in good faith about the likelihood of different outcomes of a policy or its absence or alternatives this seems uncontroversial
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I find that political views are a potent but not completely reliable predictor of shit I find disgusting (like willingness to use direct or indirect application of force to make consenting adults adhere to any sexual behavior standard, or regulate what media one should consume)
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kind of wonder if I have a tacit model of explicitly-espoused political views as being randomly drawn from the environment and stochastically drifting toward something reasonable (when people I might like to spend time around update) or madness (the reverse--rare?)
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sex work case: when people asked me about what I was doing with that, and I gave my spiel, the modal result was horror and a rapid update to "gosh maybe this shouldn't be enforced by crazy men with guns" idk people seem to update to decency quickly when warmly/personally engaged
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Maybe you happen to have ability and opportunity to pre-filter the real shit cases out, so this whole "blow the bolts, cut it all lose and throw into space" shit seems conspicuously extreme
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that does seem pretty plausible :/ good implications for me, maybe bad for people generally compared to my prior
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I think two things might be conflated in this thread: ppl who genuinley disagree on policy, and people who are hateful or cultic or otherwise toxic. It doesn't make so much sense to split from the first group, it makes a lot of sense to split from the latter.
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Why should I be bothered less just because someone wants to indirect their intended harm through the state?
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well because they could simply be mistaken, in which case good evidence of that will make them change their mind. A true hater never changes their mind in the face of evidence: they're stuck that way.
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