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 Something similar happens with singularity vegans, who say that "true left-wingers™ are de-facto vegans", as anything short of fully rejecting all animal exploitation is equivalent to support of global animal torture. There are also singularity anti-ableists, singularity feminists and many, many more. As far as my knowledge and understanding lets me, I support the causes of veganism, anti-ableism and feminism, I just don't do it to a singularian degree.
-<wrap lo>And since we are talking about politics now (and I know I might have gotten that kind of crowd since I mentioned Tankies and Vegans) - //NO// I am not pandering towards hardline centrism. Centrism is the idea that not being extreme is automatically good by virtue. This is already nonsense, but //especially// doesn't make sense to believe in for a utilitarian like me, who doesn't believe in virtues to begin with. What I am doing is to pander towards avoiding ethical structures that flatten all ethical considerations into a singularity if reality itself isn't as flat as the singularity (ie. is more complex than what the singularity makes it out to be).</wrap>
+<wrap lo>And since we are talking about politics now (and I know I might have gotten that kind of crowd since I mentioned Tankies and Vegans) - //NO// I am not pandering towards hardline centrism. Centrism is the idea that not being extreme is automatically good by virtue. This is already nonsense, but //especially// doesn't make sense to believe in for a utilitarian like me, who doesn't believe in virtues to begin with. What I am doing is to pander towards avoiding ethical structures that flatten all ethical considerations into a singularity if reality itself isn't as flat as the singularity (ie. is more complex than what the singularity makes it out to be).((And yes I know it actually //is// that simple and I'm just a western/carnist chauvinist, I know. You've heard westerners/carnists say "it's more complicated than that" a thousand times and you're prepared to put it all down as propaganda/absolving oneself of responsibility. Am I right? Oh how well I know you. Look, we'll get along swimmingly in our not-getting-along.))</wrap>
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 For an individual, singularities tend to be very firm and hard to dislodge. That is mostly because singularities seem easy, obvious and self-evident. It is common for someone believing in singularities to assert the simplicity and self-evidence of their singularity, sometimes to a point where they will reject any outside attempt to discuss the singularity (except for full agreement with it), and disparage those who even consider the singularity to be open to debate. That in particular is in the nature of singularities, as singularities are the exclusive moral authority to the believer and questioning it means questioning the entirety of the moral values held by the believer.