Oddbean

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 i don't really care about that stuff, because if i hate someone that bad i don't dig up dirt i just blot them out of my life and avoid everything about them that i can, i might even migrate if this person cannot be avoided

but yes, two things:

you can't stop people from gathering workable evidence

you can't stop this evidence being generated unless you don't generate it

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 as one should, no reason to give any energy to things that we don't like.  

as Taylor says,  one day dancing around in the refrigerator light, some day drunk under a streetlight, 
and maybe finally one day back in someone's front porch light

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 there was also a thread of pacifism in your recent notes too, this has some relevance

is it pacifist to get out of the way of a violent entity or group, and refuse to join the war that they are starting?

i think there is two ways of interpreting the concept of pacifism - one is bending over, the other is gtfo

i'm a pacifist but i am a gtfo pacifist

once the violence inevitably abates i'm still there and the participants are more damaged than me

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 that's an interesting reframing of that meme about the peasants with pitchforks vs swords.

gtfo pacifism

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 yeah, i say, keep the sword and avoid conflict

it's an omnipresent meme among self defense practitioners too

violence is to be avoided at all costs except life itself