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by homeonthemtn 22 hours ago
I don't understand why we humor this stuff. Our society has lost the ability to simply say "no" to something. We have to argue everything into the weeds, constantly hand wringing about biases and hearing all voices.

You can be biased. I, for one, am biased towards democracy and am comfortable telling people to fuck off when they question it. I don't need to debate it. Just fuck right off.

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> I don't understand why we humor this stuff

Social contract is a difficult subject, and people don't think about it enough.

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