im vaccinated and i would really prefer everyone choose to be vaccinated but i dont spend time talking about this for a few reasons. this first is that i dont actually think it would have the desired effect if i just yelled at people about it. relatedly this feels tendentious.
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the third is that the people who are really vocally not just provaccine but coercive about it have a serious missing mood about their stancehttps://www.econlib.org/archives/2016/01/the_invisible_t.html …
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Not sure this is a useful concept, esp because the piece seems to give examples where Caplan disagrees with people and wishes they felt more bad or sorry about disagreeing with him. But it generalized too well-- any time you say you want the state to do something, it's coercion.
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Any time you want the state to not act on a serious problem, that problem continues unabated. So you end up concluding that all politics should be drowned in overwhelming sorrow. Which is probably the true position that a moral exemplar would hold! But normal people just don't.
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It also seems antithetical to twitter as a platform, where an attempt at smug and scathing irony is the operative voice. Even beyond that, you'll never eliminate eliminate triumphal mood from politics. People would rather have a happy ruthless politician than a sad kind one.
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it is actually the position that i hold. to the extent the state seems like a good solution it bums me the fuck out. so idk maybe this is too easy for temperamental ancaps but here we are
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and perhaps we cant do anything about this sad state of affairs but i can find that lamentable as well
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