Comment by tomtomtom777
14 hours ago
Are we living on the same planet?
Surely the public discourse over the past decades has been steadily moving from substantive towards labeling each other villains, not the other way around.
14 hours ago
Are we living on the same planet?
Surely the public discourse over the past decades has been steadily moving from substantive towards labeling each other villains, not the other way around.
But that kind of labeling happens because of having the wrong political stances, not because of the moral character of the person.
Most people seem to think that holding the "wrong" political stance is a failure of moral character so I'm having difficulty making sense of your point.
They truly don't. That's just part of the alienation.
When the opposition is called evil it's not because logic dictates it must be evil, it's called evil for the same reason it's called ugly, unintelligent, weak, cowardly and every other sort of derogatory adjective under the sun.
These accusations have little to do with how often people consider others things such as "ugly" or "weak", it's just signaling.
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For activist, politicians scientists, civilians? be specific