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arguments from social and moral hygiene


  1. The political is personal.
  2. So if a person has bad politics, they are a bad person.
  3. We should shun bad people.
  4. So shun people with bad politics.

  5. The personal is political
  6. So bad private acts count as having bad politics.
  7. So shun people who do wrong in private.

  8. If you have bad friends, you have bad politics.
  9. So shun people with bad friends too.

  10. All work by bad people necessarily reflects their badness.
  11. So shun the art or arguments or data of bad people too.

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