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dotancohenyesterday at 2:33 PM3 repliesview on HN

So you consider people with different values then you sociopaths? You sound very intolerant.


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sreanyesterday at 3:48 PM

Depends on what those values are. Epstein had different values than I do.

I don't think parent commenter is saying that leaning right is sociopathic, but that some people try to pass their sociopathy as a simple act of being right leaning.

throwaway894345yesterday at 10:08 PM

If the "different values" are whether or not the state should be allowed to execute someone for peacefully exercising their right to film agents in public, then yeah that constitutes sociopathy in my mind. I'm okay with being intolerant of such sociopaths. You may also find my distaste for Nazism to be "intolerant". Guilty as charged, I guess.

CamperBob2yesterday at 4:13 PM

Yes. Karl Popper's 'Paradox of Tolerance' applies. TL,DR: tolerating intolerance turns out to be a bad idea.

Glancing at your user page, this should be an exercise in preaching to the choir. You do understand that the only reason the Republicans in the US support Israel is because embracing fundamentalist Christian eschatology gets them votes they don't have to work for. Right?

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