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Why is it that even people whose ideological positions hold that at least in general some human lives are objectively not worth living (ex. abortion of fetuses with Down's syndrome) react negatively to anyone making such a claim in specific case?
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I would not expect that most such claims are made in good faith. So the reaction might be driven by rhetorical strategy.
One of the recent cases I'm thinking of is some of the reactions to this bit from Dr. Alok "Dr K" Kanojia, from his interview with Steven Bartlett of "Diary of a CEO." It's one thing to make a blanket condemnation of his position from a view of "all human lives are valuable and worth living," but another when you're someone who talks about "dysgenics" and laments the potential effect of Dobbs on America's future demographics.
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He is talking about himself. Being upset at people telling him NOT to kill himself is a recurring topic of his. I don't know why, because he can simply go into any normal part of the internet and frankly present his political views, he'll get thousands agreeing that he should "unalive" himself as they'd say.
I'm afraid it's more like he's posting to try to get a steelman of the "don't kill yourself" position, and despite wanting to be, not being convinced by the arguments. If his brain is anything like mine, it does a good enough job arguing for the "keep yourself safe" position on its own two feet (two brain halves? two cortexes?) without going to 4chan.
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