• circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 month ago

    Ah yes, of course. We must understand and accept those who have chosen to not understand and accept human nature.

    Get fucked.

    • SuckMyWang@lemmy.world
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      It’s also human nature (supposedly) for humans to be at war and murder each other. Let’s all understand and accept those people too /ffs

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        Yes people are violent and even a bit murderous, understanding that and helping folks control it is good. Pretending folks aint violent is just fucken stupid, and almost makes me want to give ya a claymore lobotomy and I aint talken bout the sword.

        • MindTraveller@lemmy.ca
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          Human beings are not designed to be around death. Taking a life damages a person. War is not a consequence of human nature, it’s a consequence of the world we live in. Human nature mitigates this force and allows us to live in peaceable groups if we so choose, rather than doing all violence all the time.

          And human nature would be enough to stop nearly all wars, were it not for egregores which are inhuman in nature.

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    God that sounds awful in headline form.

    Pride month is absolutely not an excuse to say “current homophobes will never get better, so they all need to blah blah”. Their current behavior is intolerable, but through continued exposure and humanizing influences, the people can be reached. It’ll go from hatred to extreme discomfort to mild discomfort to … something more normal.

    Unfortunately I’m a crappy communicator and I can’t figure out a way to reduce that to a headline without making it some kind of division-promoting reductionist garbage. Sigh.

    • ummthatguy@lemmy.world
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      The nuance is what’s important, but also impossible to appropriately abbreviate as you said. All I’ve got is this:

      From The Naked Gun 33-1/3: The Final Insult

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    Holy shit. So Not The Onion that my brain read it as homosexual not homophobe until I read the comments. I forget how fucked the public discourse is nowadays

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    I guess this guy never heard about Popper and the paradox of tolerance :

    If a society’s practice of tolerance is inclusive of the intolerant, intolerance will ultimately dominate, eliminating the tolerant and the practice of tolerance with them.

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    The right to hold a bigotted opinion should NOT superceed my right of self expression. You want to be a homophobe? Fine, but keep it to your fucking self and let’s the gays exist.