In my view the word "nutcase" is more loaded than "totalitarian religious extremist", easier to dismiss as merely an opinion. Even in the "nutcase" category, there are milder alternatives.
At face value, there are billions of people on this planet that follow one ideology or another that has promoted mass slaughter in the past and possibly even in the present and future and which consider torture, slavery, and rape as acceptable. So even though I might consider them "totalitarian religious extremists" for that reason, it would actually be a position more common than what I consider moderate. I find it difficult to believe that so many people could truly think that way however. I have the same view for something like "nutcasery", but I suppose it's perfectly possible that according to my standard, most people are in the "deplorables" category. It probably doesn't really help to label them as such, as though I can shame them into being more acceptable by my standard. The reality is probably that these people did not accept the supernatural claims of their ideologies through reason, and hence, it may be very difficult to reason them out of it. I just hope that something I say sticks and they'll have an "Aha!" moment and realise that what they follow isn't right and far removed from what they believe is acceptable aesthetically and from what it is rational to believe in terms of evidence.
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Improving your happiness and changing your personality for the better
Jungian theory is not grounded in empirical data (pdf file)
The case against type dynamics (pdf file)
Cautionary comments regarding the MBTI (pdf file)
Reinterpreting the MBTI via the five-factor model (pdf file)
Do the Big Five personality traits interact to predict life outcomes? (pdf file)
The Big Five personality test outperformed the Jungian and Enneagram test in predicting life outcomes
Evidence of correlations between human partners based on systematic reviews and meta-analyses of traits
Many of the verses attributed to Jesus aren't very peaceful, although some are.
https://skepticsannotatedbible.com/cruelty/nt_list.html
Improving your happiness and changing your personality for the better
Jungian theory is not grounded in empirical data (pdf file)
The case against type dynamics (pdf file)
Cautionary comments regarding the MBTI (pdf file)
Reinterpreting the MBTI via the five-factor model (pdf file)
Do the Big Five personality traits interact to predict life outcomes? (pdf file)
The Big Five personality test outperformed the Jungian and Enneagram test in predicting life outcomes
Evidence of correlations between human partners based on systematic reviews and meta-analyses of traits
I have suspicions about the real motives (whether or not they're aware of them) of "pro-life" Conservatives: they're in it in order to create more compliant members of society. Like heavy debt or a mortgage, the burden of parenthood is a powerful mechanism of enforcing risk-aversion, compliance to bosses, and social order.
People (of any political stripe, Conservative or otherwise) that are sincere about protecting 'life' tend to support a welfare state or other egalitarian mechanisms.
Last edited by xerx; 10-28-2020 at 05:13 PM. Reason: trimmed
This is anecdotal, so feel free to ignore it; but, from what I've observed, when you have a kid, a psychological switch is triggered that makes you buy into the existing system. You become less radicalized, less open to changing the system, and more accepting of arbitrary rules designed to ensure stability.
I saw a documentary about an American White Supremacist who left that way of life after becoming a parent. His reasoning was that he wanted to make the world a better place for his daughter. In fact, this is a complete non-sequitur; if you truly believed that other races were inferior, making the world a better place for your daughter would involve the marginalization up to possible extermination of other races.
Last edited by xerx; 10-28-2020 at 09:05 PM. Reason: slight rewording
precisely, pro-life means every life matters, its hardships and struggles matter, the threats to its survival matter, even when someone screws up royally their life still matters. i don't view it as something from which one can pick and choose, and i see views that might, say, involve creating harsh laws for pregnant women while otherwise screwing over poor women and single-mothers as completely disingenuous. it's like the laws will "save the baby" but it's okay if that child grows up in terrible circumstances, in terrible poverty, without proper access to medical care or education, etc. if that child later becomes a violent criminal then advocate the death penalty. it's just completely contradictory.
It's not an ideal scenerio yeah. I don't think women who get abortions are grinning evilly at the aspect of killing a human life like some right-wingers portray them as. Their should be rules and time frames against it after a certain point which there already is. And I do think for moderation/balance purposes maybe there should be a limit to how many abortions one woman can get but idk about that either. I don't have a uterus, life can't grow inside me so I feel kinda dumb making that call anyway.Anyway, I don't like abortion, but once again, the world isn't nice, nature isn't sweet, life is hard. Etc.
I just don't think it's very fair how some right-wingers show pictures of innocent sleeping babies and compare that with fetuses etc. It's like kinda bad ESE emotional manipulation to me. They aren't the same thing. Potentiality is never reality to me. Maybe also why I never cared about the potential slayers on Buffy? lol.