Yes, LGBTQ people may be as fertile, but they don't engage in reproductive behaviors that produce new people, do they?
Yes, but at a lower rate.
The Haindmaidens is an unrealistic propaganda piece, you realize that, right?
Handmaid's Tale is based on the writer's observation of the Christian fundamentalist movement & what kinds of things they would do if they were in power. We already do have fundamentalist cults which have practices like women as property.
Also, even ignoring this, you repeatedly appeal to Game of Thrones, which is a work in the fantasy genre. Which, by the way, is useless on me because I don't watch that show. And also because the examples you're talking about aren't real things that actually happen, they're things the writer thinks are clever, which may or may not work in reality.
Cold, natural, logical biology states that the purpose of life is to propagate itself. Any other reasons are just fluff.
Y'know, saying things like this undermine your complaint that it's unfair for Thoryn to treat your invocations of reproduction as justification. I mean, you literally just dismissed any reasoning not couched in biological reproduction as "just fluff."
Which is pretty backwards, because only humans can give logical reasons for their actions. "Natural biology" isn't a thinking process, the reason lifeforms tend toward reproduction as a rule is because those are the types of lifeforms that keep existing.
That doesn't somehow relegate human constructs that don't exist for the purpose of making babies to irrelevancy. The very science you're trying to appeal to is exactly that. When someone says they're raising a child out of love (which may or may not even be genetically related to them), that's their motive, they're not sitting there thinking they're robots that have to follow their breeding instructions. That very fact is a major reason why society is capable of change.
The patriarchy Yeah, I should just dismiss you just because you use that loaded strawman term. It's a sign of someone who doesn't want to have a serious discussion, just virtue signal.
Yeah, if rejection of basic feminist theory is a prerequisite for you in a conversation, you're probably looking in the wrong website. Constantly calling everything "virtue signaling" probably won't win many over either.
Besides, he's only have to do that if he were running a democracy, where the key supporters are the people.
The people always outnumber the dictator & his cronies, so a sufficiently organized resistance can remove them from power. The best way to prevent revolt is to make them not want to revolt, & one way to do this is to blame the nation's problems on a scapegoat.
Dictatorships live by instilling altruism in their people.
It was literally 1 paragraph ago you were insisting that the beliefs of the citizens were irrelevant to a dictatorship's survival.
But that's not applying the priciple, now is it?
Yes. As you originally stated it, the idea is to find out what people want from life, fear, situation, & appeal to those things. I didn't say anything about appealing to their morality (unless their morality is what they want or fear, of course), I have no idea where you got that from. I said that giving pragmatic reasons why the mob mentality is just meant to distract them from their real enemies likely isn't going to work because the mob is hopped up on rage & adrenaline, not thinking clearly & not likely to listen to you anyway, because you're a filthy whatever it is they want to kill you for.