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If you look for it, you'll notice that "it's good that the backwards elderly are dying" has actually been a common political trope for a long time, and a lot of people who should have known better (including me, in the distant past) have accommodated or even encouraged it.
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It dehumanizes the elderly by refusing to treat them as individuals. Separately, it insults the pursuit of progress by peaceful persuasion: the foundation of civil society. But worst and most obviously, it resolves that the just punishment for sufficiently bad ideas is death.
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I do regret buying his books. I was young and naive and I wanted to understand economic crises. I wish I knew Taleb at the time.
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He used to be a lot less wacky, I don't think anybody really knows what happened there
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Is the death cult the people who campaign against simple measures to control the spread of COVID19? Or the people who campaigned for those measures who point out the inevitable consequence of opposing them? I.e. are epidemiologists a death cult, in your formulation?
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i'm guessing you didn't read krugman's tweet? he's celebrating the fact that covid kills old people because they deserve death for wrongthink. that's the death cult.
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they seem to go togetherhttps://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1278016794050154502?s=20 …
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