One of the least studied rationalist tics is “as far as I can tell, most people who believe X is bad think so because Y reason which nobody has ever brought up, but which I find easy to disregard”
Near as I can tell, the people who think it’s terrible are in large part motivated by largely-false quasi-Mathusian claims related to “overpopulation”.
somehow this person has gone their entire life without ever hearing about the concept of “conesnt”
Y’know I wasn’t expecting to see any award-winning arguments when I clicked the link to see the ‘full’ version of their post, but I’m still a little surprised that literally all the reason they gave was “something something Chesterton’s fence.” That’s just pathetic.
The opening line is… certainly a phrase.
Later:
Ummmmmmmmmm
The fucking table really got me, like, what an absolutely mad idiot.
One of the least studied rationalist tics is “as far as I can tell, most people who believe X is bad think so because Y reason which nobody has ever brought up, but which I find easy to disregard”
somehow this person has gone their entire life without ever hearing about the concept of “conesnt”
Y’know I wasn’t expecting to see any award-winning arguments when I clicked the link to see the ‘full’ version of their post, but I’m still a little surprised that literally all the reason they gave was “something something Chesterton’s fence.” That’s just pathetic.