You can’t really be offended by people you’ve simply decided not to deal with. Flipping a bozobit also seems to turn off any sensitivity you might have had.
But there’s a cost to it. Now you have a dehumanized other to contend with. It’s a sort of culture war technical debt. 🤔
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There's actually a strong connection between the bozobit and what I think of as the godbit. When people signal that they're sincerely religious, I don't disengage or dehumanize, but I do basically take them off the list of people I can have basically unbounded conversations with
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For me, "religion" is both unironic traditional religions, as well as things that look like unironic religions. Anything that can in principle be accommodated in a live-and-let-live pluralism is fine by me.
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