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Culture War Roundup for the week of December 11, 2023

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You’re the one who claims it has any validity

Oh. Well if you have any questions about what I believe, feel free to ask them, but if there's something that interests me less than you telling me what other people believe, it's you telling me what I believe.

You can’t just dismiss my reasoning on the grounds that I don’t believe the terms.

I can dismiss it on the grounds that I don't believe in X, you just think I do because you heard something that sounded like this to you, or that even though Y is a straightforward implication of X for you, it isn't for me or others. More broadly - feel free to point out the flaws in my reasoning, but if you're going to try to tell me what I believe, you're going to be ignored.

I didn’t see him do that here.

Doesn't matter, I was bringing up past conversations when responding to him.

It looks like ideologically directed social pressure: ‘you can’t sit with us unless you believe this and that’.

He can sit we me all he wants, but he does not get to portray himself as representative of my worldview, or adjacent to it.

Clearly he's not a progressive (unless he's lying, that's a different problem).

It's far from clear to me, even if he's being 100% honest.

So, if he doesn't want to become a groupless and stateless reject and eat alone every meal, he has to acquiesce to your demands of ideological conformity.

Weird how you let progressives create right-wingers by dissociating from people, and everyone else has to accept the label they put on their opponents.

You’re still avoiding the question of why showing up even matters, if you can just arbitrarily pick and choose when it applies, and when morality, or anything else, easily overrules it. If you do not deign to educate me, I’ll just ignore your “not showing up” objections from now on.

You’re still avoiding the question of why showing up even matters,

Yeah, like I said, I'm not going to answer your interpretations of beliefs I supposedly hold, that I haven't even brought into the conversation.

You brought it up in a different conversation a few days ago, which I linked. You're being inconsistent.

I don't know what the communication problem here is, but clearly we're going nowhere fast. So I'll exit here and I'll see you on another thread.

It's pretty simple, what I said in the other thread does not contradict the point "I don't see how there's anything morally suspect about wanting to stop the fertility industry". You did not bring up morality in the other thread where I responded to you, I did not bring up morality when I was responding, you did not bring up morality here, and you do not get to tell me that "showing up ideology" is about morality, if I'm the one believing in it, and you not. There's nothing inconsistent in what I said, and this whole part of the conversation was completely off topic.

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