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False equivalence and straw man. Refusing to associate a private educational institution with a person does not disenfranchise them from participating in govern

by lvs 7y ago

False equivalence and straw man. Refusing to associate a private educational institution with a person does not disenfranchise them from participating in government. He should be able to vote with respect to governments, and upstanding private institutions should also ostracize him. There's no logical conflict. In the posted article, they are shown to have engaged in a cover-up to suppress the source of the donations. Obviously they knew such a link would be problematic.

darawk 7y ago
> False equivalence and straw man. Refusing to associate a private educational institution with a person does not disenfranchise them from participating in government. He should be able to vote with respect to governments, and upstanding private institutions should also ostracize him. There's no logical conflict. It's not a false equivalence. There is an equivalence: social sanctions extending beyond the sanction of the courts. And I didn't say that there was a logical contradiction, I was highlighting the moral nuance of this point. The view that social ostracism is ok, but disenfranchisement or employment application questions is not is a very fine needle to thread, in my view. And to be clear, i'm not saying that that needle can't be threaded. Just that I don't think the moral subtlety here is getting the attention it deserves, because Epstein is a popular enemy.