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There you go again, doing the naughty thing. Thinking critically to trash our sacred cows. The world has to be divvied up into good and evil, right? And if we c

There you go again, doing the naughty thing. Thinking critically to trash our sacred cows. The world has to be divvied up into good and evil, right? And if we can't do that, if we start to see everything as complicated systems with layers of history and context, then there are no heroes, and part of my identity is lost.

dionidium 4y ago
Of course that’s exactly what you’re doing in this comment, which is to say you’ve invented a caricature of my position — I’m a simpleton with a sacred cow, clinging to the idea that the world is black and white, because to do otherwise is to lose a part of my “identity” (or something) — and then yourself divided the world into the enlightened and the rubes, the people who see layers and complexities (i.e. people who agree with you) and the morons who can’t (i.e. people who disagree with you). It’s a neat trick, but it begs the question. There’s no evidence that you see complexities I don’t, as nice as that would be for your ego. I assure you, I’ve thought about it. We simply disagree.