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I understand that my comparison is inspiring negative emotions. But that doesn't make it wrong. Do you have an intellectual (rather than emotional) argument wh
by yummyfajitas 10y ago
I understand that my comparison is inspiring negative emotions. But that doesn't make it wrong.
Do you have an intellectual (rather than emotional) argument why my rephrasing is somehow invalid?
- jayajay 10y agoPlease be careful, Hacker News is a safe-space. We dissaprove of asking questions which may make some people uncomfortable. When in doubt, do not ask questions. Thanks!
- inimino 10y agoIf you can't see why individuals fighting against systemic racism at great personal risk is an entirely different thing from a billion-dollar company flouting regulations established to protect consumers and employees, then there is little hope that an intellectual argument will make it clear to you.
- vacri 10y agoYou are correct that it's not the inspiring of negative emotions that makes your comparison wrong. I do have an intellectual argument, but you're pretty clearly trolling, so there's no real point in presenting it. You're not stupid and you know what you're doing, so why prolong the pretense?
- yummyfajitas 10y agoIs there any possible way I could ask the same intellectual question without you characterizing it as trolling? Or do you simply declare some topics to be, by definition, trolling? I stand by what I said. I think that the distinction between our celebrated historical civil disobedience and the modern kind is not so clear. One happened 50 years ago and is part of our modern mythology, the other is a contemporary conflict and as such it obviously doesn't come with "applause-lights" [1]. [1] "Applause-lights" explained: http://lesswrong.com/lw/jb/applause_lights/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/jb/applause_lights/