• YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAM@awful.systems
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      1 year ago

      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”

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      10 months ago

      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”

    • Bradley271@awful.systems
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      1 year ago

      ( Something something Chesterton’s fence…)

      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.