Mainländer
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You simply cannot say certain things, no matter how logically sound they are, because they simply offend people. They get people in an emotional state that causes them to not think clearly and engage in a type of metonymic thought pattern.
There are many examples, but the best one is pedophilia. Whenever the subject is pedophilia, culture requires that you must only ever attack and condemn it. If you make any declaration concerning this topic that is not an attack or a condemnation, even if it's logically sound and reasonable, people already get mad at you and assume through that metonimical thought pattern process that you're a pedophile or for child sexual abuse being legalized or whatever.
In the case of pedophilia, since it's so hated and despised in modern western culture, whenever you're talking about it, you have to make it clear that you're in favor of measures that make no sense at all logically and are not universally applied to other crimes and situations (criminalizing feelings, tastes, emotions, etc), or else, people will use the metonymic thought pattern to conclude that you're a pedophile/for child sexual abuse being legalized.
Examples:
Non-offending pedophiles deserve (at least) ostracism and/or being forced into rehab attempts or whatever.
People who just looked at/downloaded CP, without ever supporting it in any concrete way (financial, etc), must be jailed/have their lives ruined/be forced into rehab attempts, etc.
There are more examples of that phenomenon though, pedophilia is just the most evident one. Race would be another topic like that. Example: Someone can (rightly so IMO) think that people who simply say racist things must not be jailed, which doesn't mean they think racial discrimination is right/moral. It's merely the application of an universal, logical principle: just stating opinions should not be a crime (just like feeling feelings, enjoying things, etc).
There are many examples, but the best one is pedophilia. Whenever the subject is pedophilia, culture requires that you must only ever attack and condemn it. If you make any declaration concerning this topic that is not an attack or a condemnation, even if it's logically sound and reasonable, people already get mad at you and assume through that metonimical thought pattern process that you're a pedophile or for child sexual abuse being legalized or whatever.
In the case of pedophilia, since it's so hated and despised in modern western culture, whenever you're talking about it, you have to make it clear that you're in favor of measures that make no sense at all logically and are not universally applied to other crimes and situations (criminalizing feelings, tastes, emotions, etc), or else, people will use the metonymic thought pattern to conclude that you're a pedophile/for child sexual abuse being legalized.
Examples:
Non-offending pedophiles deserve (at least) ostracism and/or being forced into rehab attempts or whatever.
People who just looked at/downloaded CP, without ever supporting it in any concrete way (financial, etc), must be jailed/have their lives ruined/be forced into rehab attempts, etc.
There are more examples of that phenomenon though, pedophilia is just the most evident one. Race would be another topic like that. Example: Someone can (rightly so IMO) think that people who simply say racist things must not be jailed, which doesn't mean they think racial discrimination is right/moral. It's merely the application of an universal, logical principle: just stating opinions should not be a crime (just like feeling feelings, enjoying things, etc).
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