I don’t think they were even taught the concept of principles, or the idea of the Platonic ideal. A principle is essentially the distilled Platonic ideal of an argument extracted from its specifics. We look at these individual social debates and remove the gays, the cake, the injection, all the details, and just look to the essence of what we are actually arguing and therefore actually believe. They do not do this. They ONLY care about the details, so for them it’s gay = good and conservative = bad. From their perspective, they ARE being consistent, because they consistently say the gays are superior and the conservatives are inferior, so where’s the hypocrisy?
Their inability to conceptualize the Platonic ideal is also why they go after things like the BMI and healthy fit Victoria Secret models. They think these things are acts of hate and discrimination because they don’t see the world the way we do. All of us are able to accept the concept of the ideal while also accepting that nobody fully achieves it (even Plato said the ideal chair could not be physically produced), and so the concept of the ideal is not hateful to us, but aspirational. For them, ideals are exclusionary, because (they claim) “The Man” decided those ideals for us. They don’t see that ideals are based on deep, universal human truths even as they themselves secretly believe in those same ideals (for example, the liberal man who will claim an obese Victoria’s Secret model, with rolls of fat hanging over her lace panties, is “just as hot” as the fit models, but when he’s alone flipping through the catalogue, he skips right past those same obese models). This also starts to get into the deranged solipstic idea liberals have that they are able to just think/speak new physical realities into existence, like if everyone believes together that a feminine penis makes a man a woman or a piece of cloth stops a bioweapon then it does.
I don’t think they were even taught the concept of principles, or the idea of the Platonic ideal. A principle is essentially the distilled Platonic ideal of an argument extracted from its specifics. We look at these individual social debates and remove the gays, the cake, the injection, all the details, and just look to the essence of what we are actually arguing and therefore actually believe. They do not do this. They ONLY care about the details, so for them it’s gay = good and conservative = bad. From their perspective, they ARE being consistent, because they consistently say the gays are superior and the conservatives are inferior, so where’s the hypocrisy?
Their inability to conceptualize the Platonic ideal is also why they go after things like the BMI and healthy fit Victoria Secret models. They think these things are acts of hate and discrimination because they don’t see the world the way we do. All of us are able to accept the concept of the ideal while also accepting that nobody fully achieves it (even Plato said the ideal chair could not be physically produced), and so the concept of the ideal is not hateful to us, but aspirational. For them, ideals are exclusionary, because (they claim) “The Man” decided those ideals for us. They don’t see that ideals are based on deep, universal human truths even as they themselves secretly believe in those same ideals (for example, the liberal man who will claim an obese Victoria’s Secret model, with rolls of fat hanging over her lace panties, is “just as hot” as the fit models, but when he’s alone flipping through the catalogue, he skips right past those same obese models). This also starts to get into the deranged solipstic idea liberals have that they are able to just think/speak new physical realities into existence, like if everyone believes together that a feminine penis makes a man a woman or a piece of cloth stops a bioweapon then it does.