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[cellio]

When considering law and policy, the dominant factor should be what is just. When interacting with people, compassion should also be an important factor. The relative priorities of justice and compassion go a long way toward defining a political or philosophical position.

All that said, when discussing law and policy with people, things get complicated. I sometimes fail to give appropriate weight to compassion when expressing myself, even while holding a justice-dominant opinion. This is something I would like to improve in myself.

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[cellio]

I see a long comment there timestamped a bit after this one. Was that the one you're referring to?

But I do think you lack information. No shocker.

Indeed. I try to learn what I can about the myriad of important things going on in the world; I have no illusions that I have full information about anything. I try to find reasonable sources in enough variety to smoke out the bogosities.

"Conquered the will to be stupid": I like that. Yeah, that's what I strive for. I can't be infinitely informed, but I can at least try to think, and seek.