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by vezzy-fnord
3757 days ago
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If theirs is a drive-by misrepresentation, yours is a sycophancy and an adulation. The argument from bad people is a false one, largely because bad people are people and hence do everything that people in general do. As a result, it can be applied to anything. If it's a universally valid point for the prohibition of anything, then it is cognitively meaningless. Nor is it all absurd to believe that a ruler is ambivalent over their subjects. Why would such a thing be absurd? The state and political power are not instrumentalist concepts. We must apply behavioral symmetry to all power elites. (It's also amusing to see "incomplete information" brought up again. That's the same pseudohistory used to justify Iraq in retrospect.) |
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