I think you aren&#x27;t following.<p>I said the only thing I like about Trump is that he&#x27;s shining a light on the flawed decisionmaking process that is democracy. The specific flaw is not that various anti-discrimination laws exist, but that laws exist due to a sequence of emotional reactions of the mob and historical accident rather than due to reasoning from a core set of principles.<p>I don&#x27;t know what you think changed - I&#x27;ve always favored reason over religion and moral philosophy over doing what feels good. Consider various comments of mine on moral philosophy over the years, on a wide variety of topics (free speech, public access to beaches, corporate forms, internet shaming):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7068509" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7068509</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=4230649" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=4230649</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8365554" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8365554</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7068509" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7068509</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9901225" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9901225</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9126192" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9126192</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6819575" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6819575</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6818871" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6818871</a><p>I also truly don&#x27;t understand why you are so offended by the idea that I consider anti-racism a <i>consequence</i> of my anti-violence position, rather than a <i>core principle.</i> Why is it so offensive that I oppose what you oppose, but I oppose it with different ideas?<p>Isn&#x27;t it good that multiple chains of reasoning lead to the same conclusion? To me that suggests robustness in the conclusions. If you were willing to actually advance a logical argument in favor of these conclusions, I&#x27;d certainly be happy that something I believe is robust and not just a weird quirk of one set of axioms. Similarly, if a mathematical fact has multiple disparate proofs, I&#x27;m far more convinced that it&#x27;s actually true.<p>Or is this simply religious hatred of an atheist who happens to live according to the principles of Christ cause they seem like a good idea?