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@verius Laws, rules, or regulations don't prevent issues, they provide the means by which issues are remedied when they occur. I feel this is the fundamental misunderstanding most people have about that kind of thing. What prevents or mitigates issues are how the community reacts to various things and that's a difficult thing to force.
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@verius Well, yes and no. In general a well-functioning community can just live and let live. To use an expression, it "doesn't sweat the small stuff." Which is why many reactionaries and activist communities are not well-functioning community. For instance, you and I have agreed on some things and disagreed on others, in discussing politics or personal views,…
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@verius * are not well-functioning communities
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@verius It definitely comes from a place of insecurity. I'm willing to let a lot of "transgressions" go, even sometimes large ones, because I realize that random people on the internet that disagree with me or antagonize me ultimately have exactly as much power as I give to them, and if I ignore them, that power is greatly diminished (though it doesn't go away - no…
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@sim @verius The trauma with coming out to my parents about being homosexual did a good job of making sure that I don't really look to others to justify who or what I am ever again, but a lot of people do, and so when you don't justify their view or identity, they take it deeply personally.
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@sim People often use their own emotions as blackmail in this way to try to coerce others. I find it a very childish thing, like an adolescent or toddler throwing a tempertantrum because they did not get their way.
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@sim "Once you give a charlatan power over you, you rarely get it back." - Carl Sagan
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@sim It's an endless tug-of-war with those people, one that I avoid.
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@sim Agreed. It becomes a huge time sink.
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