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>I'd much rather have some stupid people protesting than have FB/outrage mobs driving what is okay to protest about. Note how dramatically you understate one s

• tjr225 7y ago
  I agree with your sentiment but one side is trying to dictate what is acceptable- the other is not.
  • vkou 7y ago
    This can also be phrased as a choice between one side that is trying to cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, and one that is not. I don't care if the first group does it out of ignorance, or simple disregard for human life. They are free to play Russian roulette with their own lives. They have no moral right to do so with the lives of their neighbours.
• dmix 7y ago
  The outrage mob is free to protest all they want. Or to freely speak. I don't see how this group would differ? I merely used stupid here to make a point, to generalize or pander even, it's hardly just 'stupid' that people try to control. That misses the point entirely. Regardless the other commenter already noted the very important distinction. I’m not trying to control the mob or define who or what is stupid using some top down hierarchy of wrongthink (trying is the key word here, I could rant about the costs of control and false positives vs the efficacy of FB events, ignoring the large existing willing audiences they always tapped into, and Russia spending a few hundred K in a multibillion dollar election, but I’ve fought that war enough times - the philosophy of how to deal with society in general is what we’re discussing).