I went from a libertarian "Let people be" to "degenerates belong on the cross"
Had to learn the hardway that just because I'm okay with letting people be doesn't mean they are, and I'm physically bigger than them
I feel somewhat the same on this one.
Let people be only works when either your overton window is reasonable (the things that people commonly do of their own volition aren't that destructive, or the extremes don't stray too far from that and you have few people on extremes).
I think that the best lesson of the 2010s was
"things do not exist in a vacuum"
I don't mean to be conspiratorial, and find it cringe when people try to draw links between one thing to another, but so many of the subcultures of the 2010s that turned out to be brainrotted from within only exist because the extremes were not only tolerated, but encouraged.
I think letting too much slide within a culture can has this effect, and there is also the fact that people need to be educated, to understand the consequences of their own actions, and how they can affect the bigger picture.
A big meme is,
freedom requires responsibility and none of that is really taught any longer.
I think part of the old overton window was that, for you to be able to engage in weird shit, unless you were some methhead who noone cared about, you had to be a contributing member of society, be able to hold down a job, and you probably had invested enough in the system to afford some furry suit. At the least, you'd have the sense to understand
where and when things were appropriate. As a plus, you probably understood the broader social trends and that if everyone was like you, society would collapse, so best to not really rock things too much and leave people alone.
Now, you have freedom without responsibility, and people demanding that not only others partake in their fetishes, but to partake in them
publicly.
Add that education has and is going down, and yeah- you are allowed to be dumb, but also remember that we live in a democratic society and these people also vote.
Most people used to be socially libertarian if they lived through the 90s and 2000s, if that makes sense, but it turns out that you do have to give a shit about society, your neighbors, etc and what they do, their subcultures, their fetishes, even the sheer level of their education
can and will affect you. Covid should have been enough of a wake-up call on that one. Do what you want, but when there's a crisis, people will vote to feed you to the dogs.
I'm still
live and let live in some sense, but I'm at the point where there are certain rots within society that, for my own safety, I just can't accept living and let living on. Gaslighting on BLM, troonage being a good thing, open air drug usage being a good thing, etc. I think that there are certain SJW subcultures that are cult like and rot peoples brains out, unironically.
Whenever I see the argument "well its not hurting you, so what do you care" though, its eye rolling to me, because a) it usually comes from the most brainrotted people, and b) its not harming me
immediately, but a couple years down the line- it may, and historically has, and probably will again.
