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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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Are you worried that you will say something that will cause them to lose the faith that they've constructed so much of their life around?
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lol no, I'm not *that* full of myself. I don't think sincerely religious people have faith so weak it can be harmed by casual shitposting by the likes of me. It's just not interesting talking to somebody with such a major premise being different.
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I don't have the feeling you describe but we might have radically different ideas regarding "what is interesting about talking," which, hm. I probably shouldn't expect any further reply in that case.
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its just a branch-and-bound procedure. I have well-tested bounds for how much I can expect sincerely religious people to surprise me. Online or offline. The way you don't expect the infinite list of even numbers to contain odd numbers.