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I think you missed the point of that one. He doesn't want to hurt other people, but realizes he won't know all the ways he could do so accidentally. So, in th
by Frondo 9y ago
I think you missed the point of that one. He doesn't want to hurt other people, but realizes he won't know all the ways he could do so accidentally.
So, in the interest of not hurting people, if he is unsure whether something will or not, he'll defer to smarter people about what's appropriate behavior.
If you don't care whether what you say hurts others, you need do nothing, need defer to no one any time, ever.
- SamReidHughes 9y agoWhat he's really doing is letting himself get censored by hecklers.
- Frondo 9y agoNo. If you don't care about hurting other people, do whatever you want. If you do care about hurting other people, do your best but recognize the limits of your knowledge--and where your knowledge is insufficient, defer to other, smarter people. But again, if you don't care about hurting others, do what you want. You don't have to share his goals in life. You can have your own. It's simple, and it's not censorship.
- jdoliner 9y agoWhat if you're deferring to smarter people who want to hurt others though? Quite the conundrum.
- pas 9y agoWell, if you were a common Hans in 1930 Germany, you might have listened to smarter folks, and they wanted to hurt Jews a lot, take their stuff and beat them for their greed (or whatever). Are they really smarter? If you think yes, then what can we do, you'll happily join them, and probably won't be swayed by even smarter people's arguments. If on the other hand those allegedly smarter people advocate against the spread of nationalism by recommending that you maybe don't employ or get employed by nationalists, that might be a bit different, yet maybe totally counterproductive.