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The point of the cougar analogy is not to dehumanize anybody. It is to demonstrate that sometimes problems exist (problems as in configurations of reality that
by caconym_ 6y ago
The point of the cougar analogy is not to dehumanize anybody. It is to demonstrate that sometimes problems exist (problems as in configurations of reality that can be articulated as bad), and that doing nothing is often not the solution that will yield the greatest good in a utilitarian sense.
I'm sorry if that wasn't clear.
I'm curious, though—would you just let the cougar do its thing? Like, if that literally happened, and you were the guy at animal control who got the call?
- disgrunt 6y agoI reject your analogy on it's face as a banal attempt to justify incivility and barbarism towards those in which we disagree.
- caconym_ 6y agoOkay. But if you want to imagine I'm making a point I'm not making and respond to that rather than the point I am making, could you do it offline in a Word doc or something? There's already a lot of noise in this thread.