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Can you please link to the list of Empirically Correct Viewpoints™ so that I can identify and purge myself of thoughtcrimes?
by hnzix 7y ago
Can you please link to the list of Empirically Correct Viewpoints™ so that I can identify and purge myself of thoughtcrimes?
- fortran77 7y agoLet me guess! It's probably something like this: https://www.rust-lang.org/policies/code-of-conduct https://www.rust-lang.org/policies/code-of-conduct
- cortesoft 7y agoThey aren't thought crimes, but they are views that will get you ostracized... and they should. The rule is fairly simple, and does not require a list; if you believe that someone should have a different set of rules and expectations just because of a characteristic outside or their control, that is not acceptable.
- hnzix 7y agoDividing the discourse into Correct people and The Others Who Shall Be Shunned is exactly the kind of binary thinking that is killing rational discourse. You are never going to change someone's mind by shouting at them.
- tjpnz 7y agoIt kills far more than rational discourse. People have had their careers and lives ruined over what somebody else deems to be wrongthink.
- cortesoft 7y agoAre you suggesting that there are NO viewpoints that are worth rejecting out of hand? If someone thinks that all black people should be killed, we need to entertain his views? There are limits, and some views are not just a difference of opinion. Some viewpoints need to be shunned.
- dang 7y agoPlease don't take HN threads further into flamewar. What serves the value of the site is rather to ignore provocation and invest energy in what's intellectually interesting. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html