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There's an argument to be made that piracy is illegal whereas hate speech (in USA) is not but my point was that Big Internet has no moral compass whereas you se
by abhi3 9y ago
There's an argument to be made that piracy is illegal whereas hate speech (in USA) is not but my point was that Big Internet has no moral compass whereas you seem to want to argue with a strawman of moral equivalency between two unquestionably immoral acts.
- peteretep 9y agoIt's not a strawman because I am attacking the actual argument you made.
- abhi3 9y agoI drew an equivalency between the unquestionability of the immoral character of two acts (even that was not my central argument) and not between the relative degree immorality (which is what you decided to argue against).
- peteretep 9y agoFine then. I assumed you had considered the degree of immorality to be important, because the alternative just makes you look whichever you prefer of disingenuous or deranged. Mea cupla