endlessly fascinated by the fact that i've arrived at many of my far left political opinions, many of which conservatives would characterize as naive, "bleeding-heart", or "touchy-feely" through cold analytical ruthlessness. oh, you find it personally distasteful to let "bad people" walk free? suck it up buttercup, i'm here to reduce crime and keep our streets safe.
conversely many conservative views, especially regarding "law-and-order," while sometimes characterized as pragmatic, when prodded essentially devolve into saying "i consider high crime rates a fair price to pay for indulging my most base urges." bloodthirsty fools
though to be clear, what one means when they say "results," what sort of outcomes someone considers desireable in the first place, is naturally going to be driven by some set of core values. and i do consider compassion and mercy core values. i'm not, like, an enlightened sociopath. i just think a truly enlightened sociopath would agree with me about many things
I feel this so hard. Like it's not just that I think every person deserves housing, but also if you don't like people sleeping on benches, the most effective solution is to give everyone guaranteed permanent housing. I also think everyone deserves housing fundamentally anyway, but if I turned off my empathy entirely I still reach the same policy conclusions.
I was saying this stuff as a teenager, like...
Public transit, housing, universal health care, literally from a pure fucking numbers standpoint, you're just being INEFFICIENT to not support them!
Fascists are not driven by anything but a desire for social domination even if they, in turn, are being violently dominated. As long as they get someone to hurt and terrorize. Everything becomes clearer when you understand that.
Like its assumed i want to protect the biospgere because im some bleeding heart ecologist. But no, its that i and my loved ones live on tbe planet and would like it not to immolate itself
Its assumed im a leftist because i want marginalized groups to do well because its morally correct. This is not so, it is because it is the most efficient way to run the economy, and the best way to achieve a future i desire.
Its assumed that i want lgbtq+ rights because of morality, but really its because i know if we cant accept queer and trans people, no way in hell we'll produce the transhumanist future i desire, how is there going to be a hunger for non-human body modification if most humans are still hung up on the idea that a girl can have a dick, or have transition from an assigned male at birth body.
The world will never be fit to hold me, never be fit for my consumption, never be hospitable to my kind unless humans get their shit together and fix these, i feel, basic issues in society.
Its not moral desire, its cold, hard logic, and a knowledge that conservative regressive ideals will only stagnate culture and keep me from my promised future, before killing us all of course.