Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by betwixthewires 1494 days ago
I wouldn't say that. To take another example, you might not think it's society's responsibility to house homeless people while also thinking it is wrong to kill them. So expecting people who think (what they believe to be) murder should be illegal to then want to take good care of the world is dishonest, the second does not follow from the first.
1 comments

But if society kicks out the homeless people during a particularly cold winter season and they happen to die of hypothermia, then that's deemed acceptable.

The reality is that the second often does derive from the first, it's just enough degrees separated that they don't feel the cognitive dissonance. It's the same reasons why the pro-life constituents are often against increasing welfare and aid for single mothers, as George Carlin once brought up.