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> I feel very strongly that people should decide what they think is right and fight for it. > I feel no need to convince other people that my morality is super
by darawk 11y ago
> I feel very strongly that people should decide what they think is right and fight for it.
> I feel no need to convince other people that my morality is superior to theirs.
Those two statements are in direct contradiction. Fighting for your morality is convincing others of its superiority. Those two things are the same thing.
- shkkmo 11y ago> Fighting for your morality is convincing others of its superiority. Unless your morality includes letting others come to their own conclusions about what is right. In that case, trying to convince others that they should let others pick their own morals would be self-contradictory.
- darawk 11y agoIn what sense are you fighting for your morality, then? It isn't contradictory to hold that view, but if you hold that view, then inherently you would not fight for it.
- DennisP 11y agoThey're not entirely the same thing. For example, if you think people have a right to privacy, one way to fight for it is to write cryptographic software, so everybody who already agrees with you can protect themselves. That doesn't require you to convince anyone who disagrees.
- kaybe 11y agoIf you fight to win (in at least as much as keeping your freedom to encrypt), you will have to convince your government at some point. The topic won't go away and if they care strongly enough you might find yourself in your own private full-on intelligence war, and maybe in prison. At some point tech cannot help you (rubber-hose cryptography).
- erikpukinskis 11y agoLaw is not the only moral battlefield.
- kaybe 11y agoCould you elaborate? I think I do not understand your point.
- darawk 11y agoThat isn't fighting for your morality, though. That's just making crypto software.