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1) Find animals (behaviors) some people eat (do) but most don’t.

2) Make an appeal to some emotion to politically limit their harvest (acceptability).

3) Expand this program to the next least popular animal (behavior), repeat, etc.

4) Congrats, you’ve changed public opinion on what animal to eat (behavior) is moral and ethical. This is the formula of progressivism.

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5) if animals don't want to get eaten why would God (make) them out of food? Checkmate (atheists)

> This is the formula of progressivism.

The process seems identical to majoritarianism.

It's the opposite actually. It's the dictatorship of the small minority. Nassim Taleb write an interesting article detailing it [1].

1] https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...

If you have convinced people to change their minds by dint of your ideas, how is that a dictatorship? No one's sending people with guns into lobster boil festivals or grocery stores.

>> For during the Hellenistic era, Greek replaced Aramaic as the lingua franca in the Levant, and the scribes of Damascus maintained their records in Greek. But it was not the Greeks who spread Greek around the Mediterranean –Alexander (himself not Greek but Macedonian and spoke a different dialect of Greek) did not lead to an immediate deep cultural Hellenization.

Right. And the Spartans weren't Greek but Spartan and spoke a different dialect of Greek, the Laconic dialect. And the Athenians weren't Greek but Athenian and spoke a different dialect of Greek, the Attic dialect. And so on.

But I wonder, which is the one true Greek language that all those dialects were dialects of? And who were the true Greeks who spoke it?

Or should I ask, is every bit of information in the article just as dodgy as the bit I quote above?

What -ism doesn’t suggest or prescribe change in behavior?

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