cause yes like consciously these are important things to consider and i even address these first when people wanna do sex work but there's something about the weight being given to the possible consequences here that is really getting me beefed up
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Replying to @Aella_Girl @eigenrobot
it's been a long-standing sense I've had of this community that people are waaaay more risk averse than i think is ... virtuous? i don't usually think in virtuous terms but that seems to be the best frame for this. like there's no discussion about tradeoffs or life vitality
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Replying to @Aella_Girl @eigenrobot
and also this is not just really about you. over the past year or two i've seen instances of something that reminds me of this mentality in the rationalist community in ways that really horrify me in some primal way and so this is just pushing me over the edge
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Replying to @Aella_Girl @eigenrobot
i feel like if this community were a tribe in the planes and we got overrun by enemies, i would be raped and kidnapped while everyone was standing around debating the risk factors and sterilizing their groceries after 72 hours
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Replying to @Aella_Girl @eigenrobot
also again TO CLARIFY i do not mean to imply you should take risks you find to be bad, like i'm not trying to shame you into risking your job or personal life. i think the thing that triggers me is like... the way it's being talked about, not the actual decisions.
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Replying to @Aella_Girl
if it makes you feel any better I have successfully and physically driven away people trying to assault women I had never met on two (2) separate occasions this is just not that kind of fight
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Replying to @eigenrobot @Aella_Girl
like, as much as I would like to find Certain People and beat them within an inch of their lives and have occasionally thought about what that would look like, that is simply not the way we win this one
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Replying to @eigenrobot
i know but I also don't think that's what i was trying to express.
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Replying to @Aella_Girl @eigenrobot
I get this feeling when I realize that in society somebody somewhere has to be brave/brazen to protect other people's ability to be risk-averse and safe.
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