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Why do you think abortion is bad?

If
1) we agree that murding people is bad
2) at age 20 a human is a human with all the moral weight we give people
3) one day earlier he was also a human
4) we accept induction
5) we don't consider Ship of Theseus to be a debilitating objection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
then the only Schelling point where non-human matter turns into a human is at the point of conception.
Thus I defend the right of every human being not to be murdered with medical instruments or poisons.
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P.C., on campus and off, was a thing in the early 90s but it quickly became a joke and AFAICT had largely faded away by around Clinton's second term. Now it's come roaring back with a vengeance. Why do you think that is?

@st_rev's theory is that the crash of 2008 threw a lot of liberal arts folks out of work and then into Buzfeed, Huffpo, etc. They were bitter, they were low-status...and they were handed megaphones.
It's as plausible as anything else I've heard.
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Do you not think that a Nash Equilibrium is likely to ultimately result in some privately policed polities where homosexuals (or blacks or Jews or bums or protestants or Catholics) are welcome and others where they are not? Won't this arrangement look very much like a diversity of states?

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I ** DO ** think that a Nash Equilibrium will deliver exactly the results you desire.
...and I consider this to be a feature.
This is exactly what I mean by the phrase "Nozickian meta-utopia". In _Anarchy, State, and Utopia_ (the third section, I think, but it's been a decade since I last read it, so don't hold me to this) Nozick talks about how any one man's utopia is many other men's hell, and therefore there can be no one utopia. The best that can be achieved is a meta-utopia, that allows many smaller utopias to flourish within it. This is very similar to the Nrx / ancap idea of exit, or Moldbug's idea of "Patchwork" http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2008/11/patchwork-positive-vision-part-1.html .
Lefties hate this idea, because they are unable to summon the epistemelogical humility to accept that de gustibus non est disputandum : if { gay marriage | sex before marriage | recreational drug use | etc. } is fun for them, it must be excellent for EVERYONE, and ANYONE who disagrees with them clearly hates human flourishing and should be belitted, mocked, and driven out a job.
Righties don't love it either: it grates on many righties to imagine that the neighbors might not be as full of respect for Jesus, the military, etc. as they are.
There is declining marginal utility to making others agree with us, and increasing marginal utility to hanging on to our preferences as others try to pry one more unit of our freedoms away, thus the N.E. in any given attempt at a monolithic utopia is failure, as no side has the appetite to completely give up and no side has the appetite to complete win.
Thus if utopia is impossible, only meta utopia is left.
Or, at least, that is the efficient frontier.
One can do considerably worse.

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"Christianity tends to result in Leftism" It's true. Christianity has helped build Western civilisation, but it's also doing a lot to destroy it. Islam may be evil, but not because it's a right-wing religion.

You wanted assert.fm but somehow ended up at ask.fm.
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We Must Secure the Existence of our People and a Future For White Children - agree?

I LOL because all the twitter racists I see spend a lot more time talking about white children than they do settling down and creating some.
Enjoy your LARP, Adolf.
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Okay, so current estimates predict that the numbers of the religious will have grown by 2050... but most of that growth is attributed to Muslims. What can be done to tip the scales in favour of Christianity (or any other deserving religion) and against Islam?

Christianity has Jesus on it's side.
Islam has only Satan.
There is no need to tip the scales; we've already won. In fact, I almost feel sorry for the poor bastards.
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What exactly *is* racism? Is there anything to be said either in favour of or against such beliefs?

To employ Scott Alexander's concept, there's a motte and bailey.
The motte (the well defended center argument that pretty much no one wants to attack) is "it's racist and wrong to lynch black men because you heard a rumor that they slept with a white woman".
The bailey (the greater argument that the sneaky Other Team will try to occupy the moment you turn your back) is "racism is any time that outputs are not proportioned the exact same way as inputs...and it's any time a person with white skin (no matter what their ethnicity) does something we dislike". So the fact that more Asians graduate with STEM degrees than do blacks is racism. And the fact that a Hispanic man shot a black man who was assaulting him is racism. And the fact that blacks commit more murders than whites and are arrested for more murders than whites is racism.
I strongly agree with the motte of racism. I strongly disagree with the bailey.

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Any advice for someone who was redpilled late in life (40s)? basically a graying ex-SWPL who sees stuff like "JJ Abrams to add gay character to next Star Wars" and thinks "well, shit, no wonder they hate (((us))) and are backing Trump"?

Stock up on MREs and ammunition. Western Civ is going to crash, hard.
The good news: we will rebuild.
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So... How do we kill the SJW plague? For good, I mean? (Can, but doesn't have to involve actual killing)

1) the temptation to sloth, venality, finger pointing, shaming, will be with us always.
2) the intense version will burn itself out, sooner or later
3) ...but will flare up again for the rest of human history
4) Very Hard Times™ may be coming. Social Justice is incompatible with real trials.
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To what extent does art reflect the health of the culture that produced it?

You're trying to get me to agree with you about "degenerate art", right?
Some art is pointless and stupid...but much "degenerate art" (e.g. jazz, rap, etc.) is quite skilled and merely resented by other sub-cultures because of what it reflects about shifting power allocations within the greater society.
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