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A thought experiment regarding the "just quit" argument: You're placed in a room with a person who is raving about homicidal fantasies. A gun is placed in the
by sixstringtheory 6y ago
A thought experiment regarding the "just quit" argument:
You're placed in a room with a person who is raving about homicidal fantasies. A gun is placed in the middle of the room. You don't think they should have access to this gun because of their statements. Is the solution to:
1) leave the room
2) try to get control of the gun before they do
Facebook is a tool, the same as that gun.
- bhl 6y agoThis is a bad thought experiment, because a solution could be to empty the gun and then to leave the room.
- sixstringtheory 6y agoYou'd have to gain control of the gun before them in order to empty it.
- dnissley 6y agoYou can certainly make a case for facebook being a weapon, but you could just as easily make a case that it's not. This is a terrible thought experiment that has us assume the former without considering the latter.
- sixstringtheory 6y agoI didn't mean to make the case that Facebook a weapon. I even said > Facebook is a tool, the same as that gun. But I chose a weapon to try to show something with high impact that is simple to understand. Try it with an unhappy neighbor, a tree on your property line and a set of garden shears.