Being able to respect and befriend evil people means you will not immediately commit a terrible mistake when it turns out you were wrong about good and evil.
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Replying to @lordcataplanga @legalinspire and
Respect, maybe, befriend...not while I have the opinion that they're evil. Once I discover an error, certainly we can revisit it. But yes, Count Rodolfo's tale is an instruction in hubris.
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Replying to @palecur @legalinspire and
Could you say the same thing from behind Rawls veil? You can afford to only be friends with good people because you have good family or good people who want to be friends with you. If you were stuck in ancient Athens, you would wish people were more tolerant of moral perversion.
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Replying to @lordcataplanga @palecur and
I speak from personal experience here. If you had been born where I was, if you lived where I do, you would hate everyone and everything unless you learn to be friends with evil people.
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Replying to @lordcataplanga @legalinspire and
lol this presumes a really expansive definition of 'evil' tbh
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Replying to @palecur @legalinspire and
I thought you maybe didn't want to be friends with people who have stupid political opinions because you thought that counted as evil. If you just find their friendship unpleasant but not 'wrong' per se then our difference is not ethic but aesthetic.
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Replying to @lordcataplanga @legalinspire and
how could I find someone's friendship unpleasant? friendship is definitionally pleasant.
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Replying to @palecur @legalinspire and
That's what I mean. Maybe being friends with a person who has stupid political opinions is unpleasant for you, therefore it's a contradiction and you can't be friends with them. Imagine someone acquired bad opinions after you became friends with them. Would you remain friends?
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Replying to @lordcataplanga @legalinspire and
Ah! I see the distinction. No, some folks have foolish, misguided, or ill-conceived notions; the original discussion was about *evil* opinions. Different situation.
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Replying to @eigenrobot @peroxycarbonate and
Another way to look at this -- maybe democracy is Bad.
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