[throwanem]

> medical, the government, or dare I say, military decisions

Which of these are you making?

> Because I am capable of engaging in deliberate thought about awful things does not make me awful too

Are you sure? Being able to entertain ideas you don't agree with is necessary, but there is a sting in the tail. There was an old warning about that, something about how it looks back. I don't believe people nearly often enough understand what was meant. I don't believe you do.

> I have no idea why you think that Scott Alexander is somehow the boogieman in the current ethico-political landscape, go look at Curtis Yarvin.

Yarvin's never been anything but a jackoff wannabe who dresses up in big bro's old rocker drag to indulge his humiliation kink on stage, and reliably struggles to achieve even that much.

I'm more interested in people capable of being taken seriously, and "Alexander's" whole schtick is making the implausible, nonsensical, and unconscionable go down easy. Eugenics is one example. I don't hold against him that he's justified it once long ago; anyone in their 20s or early 30s is likely to say dumb shit occasionally. It's just that I see no compelling evidence he has in the interim developed an understanding of what was wrong with his prior thinking, only learned in the manner of an incompletely socialized child what makes people angry to hear talked about. Unfortunately, he is no child; like anyone his actions have consequences in the world, all the more in his case for his outsized profile and persuasive qualities. That makes him a somewhat dangerous person in his own right, and as anyone else's 'useful idiot' potentially a good bit more so. As such he merits interest, which as a public figure he also recruits. And, of course, it is always interesting to observe who lately seems to be recruiting him, which appears pretty simple to do.

What a shame. As an author of fiction the man has a genuine gift, I think, yet he will always in the end be "better known for other work."

[rwnspace]

Again you speak completely arrogantly, you have no idea what decisions I've taken in my life, no, none of the list, and yes, ones that involve significant threat to life. I specifically did not use the word "entertain" for those ideas because I have firsthand experience of the aforementioned sting. There's a reason I described myself as "post-rat". Yarvin was taken seriously for quite a time and is far more well-aligned with the sorts of people and views you're alluding to. Scott's Jewish, for god's sake.

I can only conclude you're a troll with far too much time on your hands. Goodbye.

[throwanem]

You ask me explicitly to address myself to the individual, and then object when I do so. I was trying to do you a favor with "don't agree with," and I have no idea what anyone's ethnicity is meant to do with anything or why you bring it up, but according to you I'm arrogant and unreasonable. You want credit for not being a "rationalist" or an "EA" any more, now that the other Scott has officially declared those words smell funny, while changing only your taste in axioms and leaving the ubiquitously and shamelessly tendentious method of ratiocination wholly intact. You call yourself a Christian and know nothing of humility. Sure. So long.