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>The country cares, but a few ultra determined parties care more. The sooner people realize that the "ultra determined" don't actually care about the issue, th

>The country cares, but a few ultra determined parties care more. The sooner people realize that the "ultra determined" don't actually care about the issue, the better. They care about acquiring power. Pushing on abortion was a good way to get people riled up to vote for them. The people doing the pushing were using it as a tool to manipulate voters, they do not actually care. A lot of people have been made to care, of course, but the people pulling the strings do not. Any issue that can get people passionate will be used this way.

snikeris 4y ago
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedge_issue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedge_issue
dsfyu404ed 4y ago
> Pushing on abortion was a good way to get people riled up to vote for them But why? Why did they have an audience? Why did peddling abortion restrictions cause people to vote for them? I'll tell you why. Because we intentionally gave them an citizenry equipped with the kinds of beliefs and moral compasses with which those sorts of arguments resonate. We spent decades raising people to think that human life is infinity valuable and that even the risk of harm is tantamount to blood in the streets. We have been raising people to err on the side of restricting people's freedom in order to prevent harm, both real harm and the statistical hypothetical small harm. We have done this on purpose so that people become outraged when they hear that some employer's machinery does not conform to the latest safety standards. We have done this so that people shun people who engage in slightly dangerous behavior. Of course, everything has tradeoffs and as a side effect of this we have created a society of people who are happy to err on the side of the fetus to the detriment of the mother's bodily autonomy and vote accordingly. In short, we are reaping exactly what we sowed.
- mrguyorama 4y ago
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- landemva 4y ago
  > people shun people who engage in slightly dangerous behavior. I have not noticed this. Risky behavior now has challenges on tiktok. Heroin is popular again.

snikeris 4y ago

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedge_issue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedge_issue

dsfyu404ed 4y ago

> Pushing on abortion was a good way to get people riled up to vote for them But why? Why did they have an audience? Why did peddling abortion restrictions cause people to vote for them? I'll tell you why. Because we intentionally gave them an citizenry equipped with the kinds of beliefs and moral compasses with which those sorts of arguments resonate. We spent decades raising people to think that human life is infinity valuable and that even the risk of harm is tantamount to blood in the streets. We have been raising people to err on the side of restricting people's freedom in order to prevent harm, both real harm and the statistical hypothetical small harm. We have done this on purpose so that people become outraged when they hear that some employer's machinery does not conform to the latest safety standards. We have done this so that people shun people who engage in slightly dangerous behavior. Of course, everything has tradeoffs and as a side effect of this we have created a society of people who are happy to err on the side of the fetus to the detriment of the mother's bodily autonomy and vote accordingly. In short, we are reaping exactly what we sowed.

mrguyorama 4y ago
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landemva 4y ago
> people shun people who engage in slightly dangerous behavior. I have not noticed this. Risky behavior now has challenges on tiktok. Heroin is popular again.