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I think I get what you're trying to say, but that's not really a "spiral." The defining characteristic of a purity spiral is that the circle of acceptable keeps shrinking. The group keeps redefining its membership until there is no group remaining. "You're not really X unless Y," where Y becomes more specific over time.
If there is an objective truth, you can't purity spiral to it because a "spiral" would mean either the definition of truth keeps changing or it can only be known to one person. If what you mean is a spiral-like group behavior that actually stops once it reaches some point, it's not really a purity spiral.
Edit: This is just comments on terminology. Giz is still being a spaz.
On the contrary. Moving toward truth is necessarily a purity spiral. As one moves towards and builds upon truth, more and more falsehoods and lies are abandoned, necessarily requiring someone (or people) to become more stringent on what they consider right and wrong.
Comparative to everything that is false, the truth is infinitely narrow. Think of it in terms of math. 1=1 and only 1. 1 does not equal 2, 3, 4, 5, 112, 12858923492, -1, -2, -21123243, 0.000000642, -523465.22348238482, etc. ad infinitum. Out of the infinite numbers, 1 is only equal to 1. There are an infinite number of wrong possibilities, but only one that is correct. This is true for all truth.
The more we understand truth, the more falsehoods and lies we eliminate from the possibility of being true, which necessarily narrows our understanding of what is true, what is right, and what is good. That's a purity spiral.
Most associate a purity spiral with what the left is doing. And, they're absolutely purity spiraling, but they're spiraling downward toward hell. The "virtues" they hold aren't virtues, they're anti-virtues, they're lies. Everything they argue, believe, and advocate for is destructive, which is one of the best indicators that something is wrong, in part or total. However, their purity spiral isn't organic. It's being pushed from the top down, by incredibly evil people who knew that we'd never accept their end goals. If they outright told us what they wanted, we (or our ancestors) would've killed them immediately. So, in their attempt to get us to those end goals, they incrementalize the journey. They get us to move from A to B, normalize B, propagandize B, and convince us that B is right and A is evil. When most accept B, they then move us to C, and then to D, and so on, until they get us to the end goal. That's the purity spiral the left (and mainstream right) are doing. They keep demonizing more and more things, the more and more mundane, to get us to the end goal of what the people in power actually want.
However, they accelerated this incrementalism lately, which is what's woken so many people up to what's happening. The frogs are jumping out of the boiling pot of water. And, as they progress their evil and lies, it becomes more unacceptable to more people, and no matter how much they try to normalize it via the media, schools, and propaganda, fewer and fewer people will accept it.
That's an interesting way of putting it... But it's like saying the Leibniz Series "purity spirals" towards pi/4. Arguably true I suppose but so disconnected from what anyone else who uses or reads the term expects it to mean that it's essentially useless.