The year is 2045 Protesters in the United States are expressing their discontent by burning down random businesses and blocking freeways Do you support this form of protest?
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This is pretty helpful on one dimension although I don't think it's a systematic resolution itself Showing up at (eg) a private residence of a public figure feels like a massive escalation over protesting that figure's office Hm. Its an angle. https://twitter.com/TieCrimes/status/1299016444345233408?s=19 …
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Maybe another useful angle is separating "protest" from "insurrection," which at least makes protest evaluation relatively straightforward (private vs public space, former to be deprecated) but leaves one with the problem of evaluating insurrection validity
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Insurrections seem less a matter of principle and more a matter of politics. Do I support the aims of the insurrection? Is it likely to succeed in its aims? Are the costs of the insurrection worth the benefits, in expectation? These may and must be evaluated casewise (good).
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What are the weak points of this taxonomy? I think I like it and it solves a lot of motte/bailey issues in rhetoric that maybe have been dominating lately, and while there are some issues around bright dividing lines I think in practice they're relatively minor.
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And my sincere apologies to
@MusingsOfYouth for dismissing his idea before ultimately adopting it wholesalehttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1254995823718313984?s=19 …Show this thread
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not all transgression is the same, rudeness versus violence
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Burge's comment is evergreen:https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/857589475836399616 …
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I dont mind protests even though they achieve very little as long as they dont infringe on others wants and needs what makes it harder than *this* for you? crash a funeral? bad want to stop ppl getting healed? bad block a road? bad stand around wave sign + no violent msg? good
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i havent attempted to abstract the act of protesting itself further than this because this answer is satisfying to me even though there might be grey areas. if you have some sort of higher abstraction insight that's meaningful then id hope youd share/challenge me on this
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this is not really eigenstyle bc I am trying to make a point but if everything about the blm protests/riots were the same except they were done by white nationalists: same windows smashed, same buildings torched, same stores looted, does your opinion of them change?
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At least there would be actual riot suppression in that case.
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