True paternalism involves care for the people being considered. Its absence implies malice (or scheming selfishness).
Libertarian respect, as a second pass, means the considered people can veto or ignore proposals they dislike.
Consent won't be violated by simply proposing helpful ideas.
That gif is delightful. Their flirting is so intimate! But also they are sharing cruel contempt for people outside their bubble with such lack of guilt. They allow each other to "get away with it".
Humans are great 😌
If you don't care, then don't reply? Right? Am I missing something here? I care. So I'm replying 🤷♀️⚖️
I think you secretly do care. (Because you are, in fact, replying.) And I respect that you (probably) care 🙏
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I'm saying they ARE children.
I'm suggesting that you IMAGINE that BOTH SIDES are your rich teenage kids (say four of each kind of child) and I'm asking:
Would you allow the youngest Jew to their sell a house to the youngest Palestinian?
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Of course they are actually *fighting* right now? So before fixing anything else you need to stop the literal violence. And this is unlikely to be easy without coherent outside pressure (perhaps paired with offers of bribes and safety for Palestinian and Israeli warlords)?
I'm not talking about the specific existing genocidal tribes and what they'd unilaterally prefer. I model each collective as a child, and inviting you to paternalistically legislate a solution to their problems that could be imposed by moral authority, carrots, and sticks. How would YOU legislate?
You mean the people *in aggregate*? Or EACH person?
Like... Do you think Israelis "should be allowed" (by the community of all right thinking people (or whatever)) to sell their home near the border to a Palestinian, AND vice versa? Then the status quo could be solved with cash transfers, right?
...No? Disagree?
I've put time, here, into learning about "Peace Studies".
The best theory I know for the cause of war is that it is usually in the selfish career-and-safety interests of all the political leaders who can and do choose to prolong each specific war.
www.amazon.com/War-Trap-Bru...
On both sides, isn't the central beef that they believe a sort of "ethno-religious collective" has a moral claim to allodial title to a country sized patch of dirt, irrespective of individual property rights and bilateral real estate deals between "individual human owners"?
I'm super interested! Does the paper ground in any concrete measures of "being functional" like improved reasoning, lower cortisol, happier children, longer life, higher dollar amounts of charitable giving, or other things that are almost certain to be indicators of "true functional virtue"?
I don't really feel upset? I'm just vibing on Bluesky.
And I'm just saying "GOOD people care even about the feelings of their current (seeming?) enemies (at least a little)... who after all are *also* endowed by their creator with the capacity for reason and moral sentiment".
It might even be Correct to make a certain amount of charitable giving *compulsory* and collect it as part of "actually selfishly rational" taxes?
...so it's charity "at gunpoint" (as the libertarians (rightly) point out is how a State does anything that a State does)? 🤷♀️
Sorry 🙏
I thought you'd understand I was "agreeing" ~disengenously to make my real point succinctly 🫠
I'm in favor of (specific thoughtful) anti-usury laws!
Also I *very much* admire voluntary charitable giving!
The conflation of charity with loans and insurance has *many* terrible effects.
I get why maybe you don't? But still it might be neat if you posted more 😉
What does this mean? How did you find this? Context please! 🙏
What about Buffalo or Mutton or Goat or something? Or actually... How many kg of CO2 per pound of offsets would I need to buy to keep eating beef? I want a list of recipes, and what the *proper* prices should be for them 😇⚖️🙏
Oh huh! Thanks for the data!
Looking closer: No mutuals (with me, anyway). DMs closed so I can't "try to fix his tactical error if he's a good faith conversationalist".
Also, obsessed with LinkedIn-style tasteless bizvibe posting about compound interest...
Is he a bot?
You're being a twitch too laconic for me to fully parse.
"ASI in corporate silos amplifies QA blindspots 10x"... ~Yes!
"Counting arguments flag the math"... Are you critiquing(?) Sphex, me, or Gyges here?
"Name the workflow QA kills first"... Is this a challenge? To whom?
Yes! You feel it too! That's the parody offered by the left of reasonable respect for rights and conscience.
The illiberal right's version is ~"Hey guys, can't we all just tolerate freedom for globohomo jews while they purposefully destroy our beautiful culture's birthrates, like in the old days?"
Indeed! Many Israelis give no shits about Palestinian feelings & many Palestinians give no shits about Israeli feelings.
Likewise w/ polarized USians on the left and right.
Likewise you towards me??
But I try to care SOME about the feelings of EVERY moral patient... And I fear I'm rare in this? 🙏
Lately, in the world, I find myself thinking that there are a LOT of things people shouldn't have done, or at least IF they did them, THEN it should have included more sadness about the poverty which forced them to choose between many bad options with an eye on budgetary limits.
Yeah. It makes a lot of sense to me to FEEL contempt for their seemingly self imposed suffering, but for me, the line I draw is (1) it's sad that they are sad and having hard lives and (2) I want them to stop being illiberal ass hats who are trying to use the state to hurt trans people.
In retrospect, perhaps I should've been less floridly descriptive re the current tragic state of partisan polarization around complex topics in the current US political landscape? I'm open to answering questions about it, if you actually want to ask any? 🙏
If you've had issues accessing BlueSky in the past ~36 hours, it means your skeets were bad. Try to post better moving forward.
Fair cop! In my defense: (1) it IS "the resonating political Current Issue in the current Overton Window" and (2) the sense making environment is full of fog-of-war pollution and (3) "I have no particular leverage in the middle east and *do* have leverage on ongoing human-extinction-from-ai stuff".
TFW Ecclesial Deists admire God's providential cleverness in having created Ecclesial Theists, and then want to help them... but the help is rejected when the Theists test, and the Deist's deontic honesty causes the Theists to accurately think the Deist is not enough of Theist.
You are *illustrating* what I mean. You accuse me of siding with "that other bad side that also wants my justice-ignoring loyalty in their existential fight" simply for saying "I'm sad that no one is in favor of Justice any more" 😖⚖️📉
Netanyahu is a "normally morally bad ruler", from what I can tell? (I haven't looked carefully, to be clear.) The moment the war ended, he would have lost voter support, and would have been prosecuted for normal domestic corruption stuff. His selfish/professional incentives are "more war" ⚖️📉🫠😖
Are you interested in exactly four? I am! Specifically, I think social phase transitions happen from 2-->3 (side taking becomes possible!) and again from 3-->4 (supermajority consensus becomes possible!). These are *enormous* moral concepts.
It was better to be purely liberal and reasonable and pro-conscience when politics was a fight between the liberal left and the liberal right.
It is WAY less fun now that politics is a fight between illiberal blood and soul anti-zionists and illiberal blood and soil pro-zionists.