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Do any of these seem like requirements?
Poll ended at 23 May 2014, 8:52 am
Given contradictory rules, preferring the hateful ones 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Torturing logic to make the world conform to your ideas 10%  10%  [ 1 ]
Creating or participating in Moral Panics 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Conversion by the sword 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
All of these seem like choices to me 40%  40%  [ 4 ]
None of this is a choice 50%  50%  [ 5 ]
Total votes : 10

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13 Apr 2014, 1:53 pm

Should I accept the conscription and fight in a war I don't believe in or be labelled a coward and possibly be imprisoned?



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13 Apr 2014, 4:55 pm

In cases where I can't possibly know about another person's capabilities, I'd rather believe that they can change, make decisions, think rationally, respond rather than react, and so on. I wouldn't go so far as to say that they deliberately choose not to exercise those capabilities in the overwhelming number of instances where people do not do those things, but I'd feel pretty hopeless if I assumed that they couldn't. Also, it seems kind of elitist and disrespectful to assume that they can't.