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I have a different take. People are suprisingly capable of doublethink. Much fun is made of the prevalence of furries among IT administrators, but consider th
by teddyh 3y ago
I have a different take. People are suprisingly capable of doublethink. Much fun is made of the prevalence of furries among IT administrators, but consider that many of these people also work at the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon, the Pentagon, and the NSA. People convince themselves of whatever they feel they need to believe.
- t0bia_s 3y agoAnother example of doublethinking would be anticommunists and grant recipients in one person. Or democrat supporting censorship/desinformation regulations.
- teddyh 3y agoI agree with your latter example, but not the former. It is perfectly reasonably be against some government policy while at the same time choosing to benefit from that policy. To claim otherwise is to be Mister Gotcha: <https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/ https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/>
- t0bia_s 3y agoThen you support centrally planed economics that ruin a free market. Benefit from system that you are against sounds like hypocrisy. Also, could be morally unacceptable to benefit from money of involuntary collected money - taxes.
- teddyh 3y agoLet me get this straight. You say that just because I believe someone can be against a government policy while at the same time benefiting from that policy, that I therefore ”support centrally planed economics that ruin a free market”? That’s quite the leap. I benefit from society all the time. I buy cheap food from the store, and the low prices are a benefit I get from societal policies which I do not agree with. To avoid hypocrisy, would I have to grow my own food?