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The content here is quite disgusting, and I certainly do not defend it, but I really take issue with what is happening here in principle. Overall this is simil
by fareesh 8y ago
The content here is quite disgusting, and I certainly do not defend it, but I really take issue with what is happening here in principle.
Overall this is similar to a runaway effect that negligence of the environment can have. At a certain point it will be too late to solve the problem i.e. control emissions or oppose this kind of authoritarianism under different circumstances. The very means to do so will either be impotent or impossible.
By then you are reliant on some new magical invention to resolve the problem, or a large death toll in the millions, which changes the entire landscape.
Corporations certainly have the right to do this, but they are only choosing to do so because there are strong winds blowing in this direction. It's important that they are opposed, before this paves the way for big mistakes to be made.
It's important that these kinds of ideas see sunlight. Ideas that promote tolerance, peace and common sense will win in the end, provided we keep talking. If talking comes to an end, we know what comes next. These ideas will only find more room to grow, and see greater validation when they are opposed in this kind of authoritarian manner.
Rather than advocating a strategy where we are relying on governments and corporations to solve these problems, we should be the ones fixing our societies and arguing against disgusting ideas such as this, with well reasoned arguments, or even humor, both of which have historically been great at winning ideological battles.
I am sure this crowd knows their Aaron Satie.
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
- genericid 8y agoI hope this crowd knows their Joseph Goebbels. "When our enemies say: But we used to grant you freedom of opinion -- yes, you granted it to us, that is no proof that we should do the same for you! That you gave us that just proves how stupid you are!" (source: https://de.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels https://de.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels and https://www.sr-mediathek.de/index.php?seite=7&id=37143 https://www.sr-mediathek.de/index.php?seite=7&id=37143 ; translation by me)
- fareesh 8y agoSo take Goebbels' advice? Not sure what you are getting at. Our enemies are fascists who will take away our rights, therefore anyone suspected of eventually becoming a fascist will have their rights preemptively taken away so that it does not come to that?