lotta modern politics on every side is just redrawing circles to get people clumped in with the worst other people
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but it must be a broader impulse, like vanishingly few people are pro-slavery and NAMBLA is Not Super Popular just like a moral yuck field to be deployed to deplete someones status PROBABLY the floor is clean but you cant be too careful
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being bad its the same thing as the other theory
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i think what it boils down to is that humans are just terrified of being in a losing coalition and you see it everywhere when youve had some weed
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I wouldn't be pals with thomas jefferson and I can distinguish his brand of slavery that he practiced from that of the egyptians that built the pyramids. the girl made a weak argument but that doesn't excuse robin's mental gymnastics
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I would absolutely be pals with Jefferson who was an incredibly interesting guy I hope I would also help him into becoming Good
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slavery was only recently overcome in our society and I think a relativistic framework does a great disservice to that achievement, infact I find this entire line of argument dangerous when 30 or some odd million people are slaves today.
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should I excuse the modern uzbeki slave holder because they happened to write something I like? I don't think most people would be okay with that and that's Good
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everyone Sins and it mostly doesnt preclude me from being buds with them my friendship isnt special in some way that withholding it from strangers is gonna make them become Good
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I guess I might be Jefferson's pal I just don't like that he had slaves and I feel pretty confident about not couching it behind "well it was part of the times"
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