1/ People believe the things they do for a variety of subjective and biographical reasons. But, even if someone's particular, long-established, and durable belief is repugnant, it does not necessarily mean that person is repugnant, too. And they're certainly not irredeemable.
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2/ For the sake of our own sanity, we often treat observable singular expressions as equivalent to someone's isolated and immutable beliefs. That's a problem because it's only an ephemeral sample... ...and isolated beliefs are at best quantitatively convenient abstractions.
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it's not necessarily about sanity, it's often about physical safety. if someone says something indicating they hold beliefs that are indistinguishable from those who want people like me dead, i'm not in a position to risk engaging that person to attempt to build a bridge.
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Agreed. It's also the reason I deliberately wrote, "And, at least for someone *in my position*" in a tweet below this one.
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