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Presumably people who use the law to oppose distribution of child pornography are the “same type” then too, right? A censorious impulse is a censorious impulse
by llamaimperative 2y ago
Presumably people who use the law to oppose distribution of child pornography are the “same type” then too, right?
A censorious impulse is a censorious impulse, after all!
Obviously you can use whatever taxonomy of people you want, but yours seems like an extremely esoteric and rather useless one.
- Turing_Machine 2y agoDon't give yourself a hernia setting up that straw man, dude.
- llamaimperative 2y agoHey you offered the framework! What about people opposed to allowing non-doctors to call themselves doctors? There are a million examples of “censorious impulses” you would not lump in with these, ergo the taxonomy is a bad one.
- Turing_Machine 2y ago> Hey you offered the framework! I did nothing of the sort. You're trying to set up a classic slippery slope fallacy and I'm not going to play that game. Me: I think alcohol prohibitionists are meddling busybodies. You: Oh, well, I guess you think there's nothing wrong with injecting babies with pure grain alcohol starting at birth. Me: I think furnaces and central heating are wonderful inventions. You: Oh, well, I guess you think it's okay to go around setting houses on fire. That's how the game is played. I stopped being impressed by it decades ago. Likely before you were even born. Bye now!
- llamaimperative 2y ago> Believing that they have the right to make this type of decision for others is what makes them the "same kind of people".