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Compromise and Human Rights (Patreon)

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2026-03-03 21:44:44
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ebu

well-put! i can envision this being a good reference for those who consider themselves politically unaffiliated, in that it asks them to (no pun intended) re-center their values rather than a blind appeal to process.

Riz Lysander

I like this a lot! Thank you for making it :3

SenGrisane

Very well done :3

BanditGal

absolutely fucking goated for putting this out man, thank you so much

Joseph Mask

Not what I expected from this channel, but am all for it, and I very much agree with you're point

Griffon the Grizzly

I've thought about running for office since last year. When I'm able to file to run, I'll cite your analogy.

pulsarbird
>>204881842

Let me know if you need marketing material. I'd be happy to contribute some of that as well

Aaron Neumann

The thing about sticks like this is that it forgets that the political philosophy pessimists are far closer to the money than we ever want them to be AT BEST, and that, in the grand scheme of things, there aren't any static 'human rights', just rights and freedoms determined by technology in some shape or fashion. We're just in a sea change of how the assumptions on those rights and freedoms (and how governments function) interact with technology (and the understanding of the universe thereof)... and the sad reality is that those assumptions are no longer viable in our technological state. At this point, we're well into the world of the moral calculus, and the only option left is essentially hard reduction.

Enterprise

You sound nothing like I thought you would sound like

Enterprise

I feel that this is unfortunately something we will never quite get right, ill throw a realistic hypothetical situation your way. Let's say griffin here in the comments actually gets into politics, and gets a seat in congress, and let's also say for the sake of argument that he has and is able to talk to all of his constiuents. With the shear volume if people he will have to work with in order for them to continue to support him, he will have to compromise on somethings to get people on side. I'll boil it down further, let's also say he is in a small area and has to keep 100 people happy, trying to get 100 people to all agree on one thing without alienating his supporters or het them to where they don't kick him out, is just not feasible. And on your topic of human rights for trans and lgbtq unfortunately the mindset if our zeitgeist is you can either be fir or against, so the only way to move forward at all is to compromise and slowly move the overtint window more and more towards full rights. Sorry for rambling, or if I missed the point but this is my view atleast on this situation.

pulsarbird
>>204882989

I believe you might be confusing rights and responsibilities. As corruption spreads at the highest level of government, this breaks down the general social order. Money paid to government is no longer used to help all of us, but is looted by those in power for their own gain. The responsibilities that we all have towards each other begin to be replaced by everyone looking out for themselves. Fewer and fewer people consider it their responsibility to help the sick or the poor, or to help lift up anyone who cannot fight for themselves. Technology strips away responsibilities as well, such as respect for each other. The assumptions we've always had as to what it means to be responsible for each other in a society are indeed changing. Rights, however, are inalienable. Our societies may rise and fall, but the ideal of equal human *rights*—that everyone is created equal, as the old saw goes—do not change. You can see this even today. In extremely oppressive societies such as North Korea, the goals of inalienable rights, of human rights, are still present. Regardless of whether their own people even have a concept of what that would mean to them personally. The goal is there; it does not change. The human rights I'm discussing here will always be a goal. Perhaps unattainable, I don't know. But the goal of equal human rights exists, it will always exist, regardless of the corruption of society, regardless of how unpopular they may be. It is inalienable.

pulsarbird
>>204898986

You're absolutely right; it's not something we'll ever get right. Compromises will need to be made in a lot of things. My point in the video is a few things. I want people to understand what it means to compromise on human rights. That it is not a "center" position to make the compromise. It's still a miss. Putting human rights on a spectrum with no rights on one end and equal rights on the other end implies that "equal rights" is an extreme position and we should be shooting for something more in the middle. This is obviously nonsense. When people DO compromise on human rights, I want others to have a better understanding of what that entails. I'm also pointing out that capitulating on human rights in order to secure the votes of people who already don't give a shit about them is not a winning political strategy. Our representatives should be taking a principled stand for equal rights, even if they know that practically, it may not be possible to implement. But they're not even doing that! Gavin Newsom, potential front runner for the Democratic presidential nominee in 2028, repeatedly talks in interviews about how we need to abandon talking about trans and gay rights and that we should instead focus on some "centrist" position. This centrist position he's always invoking does not exist; that's the point of the video. He's not taking a principled stand for equality, and we have seen time and time again that this does not win elections. People are desperate for someone who will stand up for equal human rights, but so often we don't get that in the US, on any side of the political spectrum. And it's a problem. And this video tries to explain why. So don't misunderstand me, I'm not saying to never compromise on human rights, or that we should hold fast to this ideal which may not be practical. I'm saying, let's start thinking about it in terms of a target rather than a spectrum, so that when we do need to compromise on it, we understand the ramifications of that. And when mealy mouthed Democrats try to play the centrist card, we can all see it for the bullshit stance that it is.

Amethystine

I agree with your point entirely, but the visual metaphor would have been improved [in my opinion], if the visuals were more something akin to the non-bullseye arrows missing the WHOLE of the target rings and flying PAST the target circle, deep into the woods, far, far away from the bullseye, the target, and anything we can see.