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    2 months ago

    I hear what you mean, but I never had to zap giant space bugs and I totally value my - and everyone’s - right to vote. It’s not hard to do, just sometimes defeated by cynicism, structural racism, broken social orders, etc.

    • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍
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      2 months ago

      You are an exceptional person, unrepresentative of the Common Man.

      I didn’t come up with the theory; it’s a fairly well established and studied effect. Not Starship Troopers, but how humans tend to assign value to things.