• Troy
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    Now that’s a crossover I didn’t expect here.

    Sample bias, probably. We nerds are the early adopters. ;)

    A couple of communities on server that might be interesting to you, one of them of my own creation: [email protected], PrintSF

    a lack of empathy, which I consider a foundation of conservatism

    It’s probably at least one vector. Religion is another one. The ironic thing, of course, is “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”. But it’s hard to teach empathy through rote memorization of a text that hasn’t been updated in nearly 2000 years. Knowing the words, and living the words, are two different things. And even then, many of the words are out of date (pork is delicious!).

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      The ironic thing, of course, is “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”

      Not that ironic if the parents’ views genuinely differ from their child’s. The parent can be homophobic and genuinely see it as an abhorrent thing that should be remedied.

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        This is the scary thing about conservatism/religion. It gives people the tools, through an absolutist and precsriptivist system of beliefs, to otherize people, and rationalize away the empathy that they do feel. Or perhaps use their empathy to justify doing horrible things to someone “for their own good”, like the parent trying to remedy their child’s “abhorrent behaviour” for example.