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People are calling this a “lack of introspection”
I’d call it knowing, willful bloodlust
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@jb that's also possible, but reasonable guys want to be careful diagnosing it as that, because there are really very few options at that point.
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@jb I think polimath is interesting in this way because it seems like he works with a lot of liberal people who are not ( to him ) obviously foaming at the mount.
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@jb @JoshuaSlocum yes, in some sense the reasonable guys keep reasonabling because they know that once they stop, everything collapses.
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> reasonable
sadly a concept that only holds in a high-trust, racially homogeneous society
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@sickburnbro @jb >very few options at that point
but those are the fun ones
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@sickburnbro @jb i'm one of the reasonable guys, and it's becoming clear that there is only fight or surrender left on the table
that's what happens in religious wars
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@JoshuaSlocum @jb this is why I keep talking about the Spanish Civil War. It parallels very closely.