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People underestimating how differently others' minds might work on an extremely fundamental level when it comes to snap decision making is one thing,

(And I want to stress before the rest of the post that this isn't a specific subpost as much as just me talking about something I see frequently especially on other sites, and particularly in the context of directly political rhetoric.)


but people applying the same universalising patterns of assumptions when trying to arrive at truth statements about the world, let alone normative statements about how others should act, will probably annoy me for the rest of my life.

Like, congratulations on your divine spark? Your Not Being A P-Zombie? Your having been chosen as a recipient of the Lord's unconditional grace? Your non-membership in categories such as "psychopath", "NPC", or what not?

(It's fundamentally ableism and/or saneism, I think. The inner lives of others might bear as much resemblance to yours as a coral reef does to a boreal forest, but those incredibly different experiences, emotional responses, thought patterns, and everything are still being experienced by someone. A person.)

Some people just can't get angry like you do. Some people are motivated in their activism by cold, hard historical realities and what those say about the future, rather than whatever you define "love" as. Some people end up combining pure self-interest with academic understanding to find ways of working toward a better world which work for how they're wired. Some people are just emotionally numb, yeah, but in some way or another, they have found something to drive themselves toward not just passively not-doing-the-wrong-thing, but doing the right thing. And some people's inner mental states might be entirely inscrutable to you, but still, they do what the world needs them to do.


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