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> It seems to me little wonder that everyone of import chooses the latter. "First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out--because I was not a So
by angersock 9y ago
> It seems to me little wonder that everyone of import chooses the latter.
"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out--because I was not a Socialist" and so forth. And no, the irony is not lost on me.
Systems-minded people not blinded by ideology have natural sympathies to those causes, because the same mechanisms used to justify punching Nazis and kicking fascists off the internet can just as easily be turned against things that we care about.
- confounded 9y agoWhat does your systems-mind propose? Nationalizing all companies providing web infrastructure, so that they can be complelled to host curb stompings and child pornography?
- throwanem 9y agoAbsolutism has the virtue of simplicity, to be sure. The human world, in my experience, has not.
- stcredzero 9y agoAbsolutism has the virtue of simplicity, to be sure. The human world, in my experience, has not. The judicial system is pragmatically absolutist in its operation. It's quite complicated, it's not perfect, but it does work. The system of rights it's constructed on is necessary to prevent tyranny. Look up and read the history around the Magna Carta and the founding of the United States.