RE: The political side that is the "correct" side.
May 28, 2018 at 3:11 pm
(This post was last modified: May 28, 2018 at 3:21 pm by Edwardo Piet.
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Left all the way for social issues. I don't give a crap about authority, ingroup and purity. Those are all amoral issues as far as I'm concerened.
I'm not even that fussed with fairness (depending on how you define fairness). Fairness is great so long as you understand, to quote Steven Pinker: "Fairness is not the same as sameness. When Thomas Jefferson said that all men are created equally he did not mean that all men are clones."
Ultimately harm is what matters as far as I'm concerned. Or rather, reduction of harm. Harmful=bad. Harm is only justified when in the long run it reduces even more harm.
I'm far left socially because as far as I am concerned anyone should be allowed to do or say what they like as long as they don't infringe on the freedom of others. And anyone should be able to desire whatever they like so long as they don't thwart the desires of others, or make others suffer, basically. In some situations it is necessary... but again, only when the only possible alternative is even more harmful.
My biggest problem with the SJW type of 'Left' is that they're not actually left. They're very authoritarian. They're all about censorship and controlling language. That's not left at all. It's reactionry politics. There's a very awesome speech on that matter 5 minutes into the following debate. Please go to exactly 5 minutes in:
I love this speech to death. That sums up my view on how you can't be too far left socially.
I'm not even that fussed with fairness (depending on how you define fairness). Fairness is great so long as you understand, to quote Steven Pinker: "Fairness is not the same as sameness. When Thomas Jefferson said that all men are created equally he did not mean that all men are clones."
Ultimately harm is what matters as far as I'm concerned. Or rather, reduction of harm. Harmful=bad. Harm is only justified when in the long run it reduces even more harm.
I'm far left socially because as far as I am concerned anyone should be allowed to do or say what they like as long as they don't infringe on the freedom of others. And anyone should be able to desire whatever they like so long as they don't thwart the desires of others, or make others suffer, basically. In some situations it is necessary... but again, only when the only possible alternative is even more harmful.
My biggest problem with the SJW type of 'Left' is that they're not actually left. They're very authoritarian. They're all about censorship and controlling language. That's not left at all. It's reactionry politics. There's a very awesome speech on that matter 5 minutes into the following debate. Please go to exactly 5 minutes in:
I love this speech to death. That sums up my view on how you can't be too far left socially.
