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How does your WV inform your politics?
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RE: How does your WV inform your politics?
For me, I find the idea that freewill doesn't exist tends to move me away from libertarian ideas of personal freedom towards more nanny-state socialist ideas of harm reduction (people need to be protected from themselves), including on issues like freespeech/ hatespeeech. It also tends to move me away from retributive justice towards more restorative justice methods (there's no such thing as evil or moral culpability, it's just luck) and more focused on crime prevention than punishment (esp with drugs etc).

My atheism+ physicalism makes me more inclined to see religion as harmful, especially when it is anti-science, which can have various political impacts from being sympathetic to banning circumcision and religious dress in state schools, and desiring to have a clear separation of church and state. I see theocracy as a risk, even when a soft variety.

Not believing in a supernatural afterlife inclines me to seeing human consciousness as more fragile and needing to be protected, which influences my views on existential threats like nuclear weapons, climate change, asteroid collisions, etc. And inclines me to valuing life more and influences my views on things like medical care, medical science research, the death penalty, and so on.

Being an evolutionist likely affects my views on animal welfare and environmentalism.

Being a non-moral realist and not subscribing to religious morality inclines me towards utilitarianism and libertarian social ideas, and things like legalising drugs and sex work, and promoting lgbtq+ and gender equality issues etc.
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How does your WV inform your politics? - by FrustratedFool - August 29, 2023 at 4:40 am
RE: How does your WV inform your politics? - by FrustratedFool - August 29, 2023 at 5:44 am
RE: How does your WV inform your politics? - by no one - August 29, 2023 at 6:27 am
RE: How does your WV inform your politics? - by h4ym4n - August 29, 2023 at 6:59 am
RE: How does your WV inform your politics? - by h4ym4n - August 29, 2023 at 7:03 am
RE: How does your WV inform your politics? - by no one - August 29, 2023 at 7:11 am
RE: How does your WV inform your politics? - by brewer - August 29, 2023 at 9:36 am
RE: How does your WV inform your politics? - by Aegon - August 29, 2023 at 1:13 pm
RE: How does your WV inform your politics? - by Aegon - August 29, 2023 at 2:36 pm
RE: How does your WV inform your politics? - by Angrboda - August 29, 2023 at 12:46 pm
RE: How does your WV inform your politics? - by Angrboda - August 30, 2023 at 8:45 am
RE: How does your WV inform your politics? - by Angrboda - August 30, 2023 at 9:04 am
RE: How does your WV inform your politics? - by Angrboda - August 30, 2023 at 9:17 am
RE: How does your WV inform your politics? - by Angrboda - August 30, 2023 at 9:25 am
RE: How does your WV inform your politics? - by LinuxGal - August 30, 2023 at 9:10 am
RE: How does your WV inform your politics? - by Silver - August 29, 2023 at 12:53 pm
RE: How does your WV inform your politics? - by LinuxGal - September 8, 2023 at 8:03 pm
RE: How does your WV inform your politics? - by Nanny - August 29, 2023 at 2:04 pm
RE: How does your WV inform your politics? - by Angrboda - August 29, 2023 at 3:33 pm
RE: How does your WV inform your politics? - by Angrboda - August 29, 2023 at 10:31 pm
RE: How does your WV inform your politics? - by Rev. Rye - August 29, 2023 at 6:14 pm
RE: How does your WV inform your politics? - by Angrboda - August 30, 2023 at 8:31 am
RE: How does your WV inform your politics? - by Lucanus - August 30, 2023 at 6:44 am
RE: How does your WV inform your politics? - by Angrboda - August 30, 2023 at 8:41 am
RE: How does your WV inform your politics? - by Angrboda - August 30, 2023 at 8:55 am
RE: How does your WV inform your politics? - by Angrboda - August 30, 2023 at 9:12 am
RE: How does your WV inform your politics? - by Angrboda - August 30, 2023 at 9:46 am
RE: How does your WV inform your politics? - by Angrboda - August 30, 2023 at 9:55 am
RE: How does your WV inform your politics? - by LinuxGal - August 31, 2023 at 10:04 am
RE: How does your WV inform your politics? - by Angrboda - August 30, 2023 at 10:12 am
RE: How does your WV inform your politics? - by Angrboda - August 30, 2023 at 10:30 am
RE: How does your WV inform your politics? - by Angrboda - August 30, 2023 at 10:48 am
RE: How does your WV inform your politics? - by Angrboda - August 30, 2023 at 10:58 am
RE: How does your WV inform your politics? - by Angrboda - August 31, 2023 at 11:16 am
RE: How does your WV inform your politics? - by Angrboda - August 31, 2023 at 9:35 am
RE: How does your WV inform your politics? - by Angrboda - August 31, 2023 at 10:13 am
RE: How does your WV inform your politics? - by Angrboda - August 31, 2023 at 11:01 am
RE: How does your WV inform your politics? - by LinuxGal - August 31, 2023 at 10:16 am
RE: How does your WV inform your politics? - by Angrboda - August 31, 2023 at 12:05 pm
RE: How does your WV inform your politics? - by Silver - August 31, 2023 at 11:30 am
RE: How does your WV inform your politics? - by Angrboda - August 31, 2023 at 12:07 pm
RE: How does your WV inform your politics? - by Angrboda - August 31, 2023 at 12:16 pm

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