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Not expressing an opinion against immoral things is also a political act. You are saying that profits should come before everything else.
by nsnick 8y ago
Not expressing an opinion against immoral things is also a political act. You are saying that profits should come before everything else.
- austincheney 8y ago> You are saying that profits should come before everything else. I very deliberately expressed no opinion in that regard. Not expressing an opinion within a moral argument is political only with regards for the motive of inaction. Taken to a greater extreme people are not necessarily expressing politics by not agreeing with your opinion.
- mmirate 8y agoIndependently of the train-of-thought of who you replied-to... Profits should indeed come before everything else. The previous sentence isn't a statement of politics, it's a statement of fact, and the only thing that can make it false is post-scarcity.
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- swebs 8y agoMaybe some people just support the American military for moral reasons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Americana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Americana
- dang 8y agoPlease don't take HN threads further into generic ideological arguments. By the time the discussion gets this generic, there's nothing left but flamewar. And it's always the same. Also, re "you are saying", there's an HN guideline that asks you not to argue this way: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize." That's because arguing this way consistently leads to more boring comments, and it's easy enough not to do if you remember the rule. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- nsnick 8y agoMy statement very directly refutes the assertion that they are "bringing politics into the office", when in fact politics are already there. Summarizing arguments is necessary when people obfuscate the true argument they are making. Dog whistles are a great example of this. If you can't all an argument out for what it is, you can't refute it at all.
- dang 8y agoWhen you 'call out' an argument that no one was actually making, you're lowering discussion quality by quite a bit. Making it personal ("you are saying $stupid-offensive-thing") doubles the damage. That's why we have that guideline, so please follow it.