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Many programs could be seen as a form of violence if you're forced to go through with them.

• dwaltrip 8y ago
  Ok, imagine your introvert friend was somehow persuaded to voluntarily go through said program. How would feel about that?
  • deogeo 8y ago
    Not good, nor would I feel good about them going through this LGBT 'conversion' app. But I'd feel even worse about helping further normalize corporate censorship.
    • dwaltrip 8y ago
      Fair enough, that is entirely different question. I didn't intend to make any implications about that. I should have made that more clear.
  • cameldrv 8y ago
    People do this all the time. Look at Toastmasters. Now, forcing someone that was highly introverted to go to Toastmasters would not be a nice thing to do. Strongly pressuring them to go when they didn't want to would also not be very nice, but that doesn't mean that Google should ban the Toastmasters app. Living in a free society means that not everyone has the same ideas about values or psychology or religion. These things will be debated long after we're all dead. Until every disagreement is resolved, the best solution we've come up with is tolerance. If someone is doing something voluntarily that's not significantly hurting you, even if you don't think it's a good idea for them, you're usually better off shutting up and ignoring it. The last people I want making these decisions is the company that makes my mobile phone operating system for god's sake.
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