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HODL · 160w
If I get drunk crash into someone and kill them that was an unintended consequence. If I suffer no consequences because I am politically protected/powerful, I likely won’t modify my behavior in th...
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My point has nothing to do with holding people accountable or not. Of course, we should hold powerful people accountable. This is about modeling what's true in the world. But it's also about pushing back at over-wrought narratives about the root cause of things, that are really just post hoc rationalizations to serve certain narratives.
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HODL · 160w
I mean good luck getting mainstream politics for instance to ever be anything other than post hoc rationalization. In the meantime people need to be held accountable and as any judge will tell you if the consequences are severe enough, it really doesn’t matter if you intended the consequences or n...