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I haven’t consciously thought about this before, but apparently I think there’s no safe way to be sloppy about your values. Like that one person who posted about how in an ideal society, poor people would be able to be wasteful. They didn’t really mean that, because what they actually meant was “it sucks to be this fucking poor.” But if something like that is spreading around, my emotional reaction is to assume there must be value in arguing with it, if not for the OP, then for other people who didn’t think about it.

And that’s how I ended up arguing with someone whose intent was to communicate “disabled people have the right to live.” I still don’t feel like I made a mistake there. I feel like the framing can be abused, even if the OP didn’t mean it to be abused, and I feel like recognizing the problems protects you when other people use similar arguments to take advantage of you. But it’s relevant whether or not I’m accomplishing anything besides pissing people off.