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As an extremely privacy-supporting individual, I can kind of see where he's coming from, however: I don't think it would work if we didn't apply it to everyone
by CaptSpify 9y ago
As an extremely privacy-supporting individual, I can kind of see where he's coming from, however:
I don't think it would work if we didn't apply it to everyone equally. I don't care what your job is, or how many "state secrets" it deals with, no exceptions.
I also think it would bring ~10 years of extreme societal collapse as we would realize that most of our social norms make no sense, and those things that we demonize are actually quite common.
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- steveeq1 9y ago> I also think it would bring ~10 years of extreme societal collapse as we would realize that most of our social norms make no sense, and those things that we demonize are actually quite common. Like racism?
- CaptSpify 9y agoSure. I would guess that racism is indeed probably more common than most people realize. But don't get me wrong: Just because something is common, doesn't mean we should move to just accepting it. I think it would actually highlight how subtly and unconsciously racist many people are, which would help us solve that problem. I was thinking of things more like: functional drug users, sexual-practices, etc.
- steveeq1 9y ago> I think it would actually highlight how subtly and unconsciously racist many people are, which would help us solve that problem. One can make the same argument about height-ism, ugly-ism, or money-ism.
- zo1 9y agoNo, we only want to include the discrimination that we don't like. Attractive, tall and rich people are not a protected class of citizens!