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DC drops Batman image after claims it supports Hong Kong unrest
- Jamwinner 7y agoSelf censorship is more insidious than all but the most draconian of speech supression. History will remember who slid their values for a profit. These actions are now part of indelible public record.
- vb6sp6 7y agoThis will be forgotten by the end if the day today.
- PavlovsCat 7y agoYes, and? Ever heard of the heat death of the universe, bootlicker? > When instrumental reason is the sole guide to action, the acts it justifies are robbed of their inherent meanings and thus exist in an ethical vacuum. I recently heard an officer of a great university publicly defend an important policy decision he had made, one that many of the university's students and faculty opposed on moral grounds, with the words: "We could have taken a moral stand, but what good would that have done?" But the moral good of a moral act inheres in the act itself. That is why an act can itself ennoble or corrupt the person who performs it. The victory of instrumental reason in our time has brought about the virtual disappearance of this insight and thus perforce the delegitimation of the very idea of nobility. -- Joseph Weizenbaum