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Imagine an average level of civility in a society `C`. Lets say users of your product, due to your product, operate at `0.5 C`. Is changing the product so the
by pkilgore 6y ago
Imagine an average level of civility in a society `C`.
Lets say users of your product, due to your product, operate at `0.5 C`.
Is changing the product so they operate at a higher `0.75 C` or back to `C` "paternalistic"?
Why?
I can see the argument for moving `C` to `1.5 C` as paternalistic. But when you're already actively affecting `C` in one way, why do we moralize about moving it the other way? What makes down OK, but up BAD?
- tdhoot 6y agoPaternalistic is thinking you are in a position to define C and measure it.
- deegles 6y agoRefusing to measure something doesn't make it not exist.
- themacguffinman 6y agoBut it does avoid becoming paternalistic.
- unethical_ban 6y agoYou keep on saying "paternalistic" as if it's a bad thing. I left another comment in this subthread suggesting it is not. Yes, some people are wrong and some are right. With government, there are basic freedoms that allow people to be wrong, and not to be incarcerated or unduly burdened by government policing thought. But society? Facebook? Even government messaging ala "The Ad Council"? Yes, absolutely, to hell with disinformation, trolls, and toxic platforms.