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Annoyingly Principled People, and what befalls them (opens in new tab)

Here are two beliefs that are sort of haunting me right now:Folk who try to push people to uphold principles (whether established ones or novel ones), are kinda an important bedrock of civilization.Also, those people are really annoying and often, like, a little bit crazyAnd these both feel fairly important.I’ve learned a lot from people who have some kind of hobbyhorse about how society is treating something as okay/fine, when it’s not okay/fine. When they first started complaining about it,...

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