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blessede··on UK lawmakers vote in support of assisted dying
A couple of articles with more critical views, the first discusses how proponents of the law have been avoiding scrutiny ahead of the bill, and have been talking up safeguards that aren't actually in their proposal:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/history-will-not-be-kind...

The second argues that this will disproportionately affect women, who already suffer more under domestic abuse including being killed by partners, predicting that this will be used similarly:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/25/assisted-dying-i...

According to this report, the main charity that is pushing this, Death in Dignity, uses case studies from violent men who murdered their wives and has men working for them who have killed women.

blessede··on ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials
That's interesting, have you had the opportunity to test it on anyone with strong middle-ground views on that issue?
blessede··on Underrated Ways to Change the World
There's also the problem that different people have different and conflicting ideas on how to make the world better.
blessede··on Scientific American's departing editor and the politicization of science
Thanks for your input but your wild assumptions about what I do and don't take issue with are incorrect.
blessede··on Scientific American's departing editor and the politicization of science
Many demands, but probably the most egregious is the insistence that males be incarcerated in women's prisons if they say they are women. Several states now have policy that enables this, and female prisoners have been sexually assaulted, raped and even impregnated as a result of this.

More generally, this graphic has an astute depiction of the problem: https://i.ibb.co/ZcMWLvM/no.jpg

blessede··on Scientific American's departing editor and the politicization of science
> And I thought I recognized the name. I really do not understand how trans debate has come to dominate some online discourse.

Much of it is pushback against widespread ideological capture, and in particular the authoritarian idea that everyone else has to change and restrict their behavior to accommodate increasingly absurd and harmful requests from an overly demanding identity group.