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> The point was that when you do this you participate in name-calling/slurs, not making an argument. You admitted you don't know me, yet you still managed to j

• dagss 25d ago
  Sorry, I didn't mean to make any statements about you personally, at all (and I do feel you are interpreting my comment uncharitably). It has nothing with knowing you or not to do at all, I was just commenting on the contents of your post, not about you. I meant that the act that you described (comparing religion with a virus) is in itself using the name-calling-aspect-of "virus". One is borrowing the negative connotation for a purpose, because one has (for other reasons) decided that the religion or ideology is bad. The descriptive property of virus that you then mention (as in being "viral", packets of information in cell etc) equally applies to liberty, democracy and other things that (at least I) consider good.
  • SllX 25d ago
    > Sorry, I didn't mean to make any statements about you personally Hakuna matata. > I meant that the act that you described (comparing religion with a virus) is in itself using the name-calling-aspect-of "virus". The comparison is more than a mere slur. It’s also a useful metaphor when discussing how religions & ideologies spread through a society, or “go viral”. > The descriptive property of virus that you then mention (as in being "viral", packets of information in cell etc) equally applies to liberty, democracy and other things that (at least I) consider good. Correct. I would still not call the viral framing charitable, but it is equally useful here, and I’ve used it for these & adjacent concepts before.