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Imagine I witness you break your leg in public, in an otherwise isolated place. I have no legal obligation to help you, but if I don’t you’ll have to drag yours
by throwawaycncltr 6y ago
Imagine I witness you break your leg in public, in an otherwise isolated place. I have no legal obligation to help you, but if I don’t you’ll have to drag yourself for hours to get help.
I also happen to find your comment very “triggering”. My parents both survived a right wing dictatorship and brought me up in a very “edgy” manner (don’t trust police. don’t talk in public. Don’t use your real name on Internet forums. Don’t talk about what happens in the family at school). My wife and her family survived a communist dictatorship. I therefore view your train of thought to be very dangerous, and I see you as my ideological enemy. To be specific I find your stance on free speech to be befitting of a corporativist, therefore a fascist as opposed to my (classical, clearly) liberalism.
Back to the woods:
Do I walk away and let you drag yourself out? Realistically you’ll die before you get out of the woods. But you might make it and I’m under absolutely no legal requirement to help you (Most jurisdictions anyway).
Liekwise, the owner of GAB could use an unpractical payment system no one in the West used unless they want to have an FBI file. His wife could divorce him and move out to make a living and raise the kids.
I would pull up out of the woods. I think I have a moral responsibility towards you. Likewise VISA has an moral obligation to provide services for legal businesses no matter how unpopular.
Imagine if VISA decided not to allow its system at abortion clinics.
Either way, I’m cancelling my VISA. I’m sick of corporate blue washing.
- uniqueid 6y agoWe're already in the middle of a pandemic where America is failing to pull together and make sensible decisions. At the same time, minorities are clashing in the streets with right-wing extremists and the police. > I therefore view your train of thought > to be very dangerous Torba and his moronic website are far more likely to contribute to a civil war in November than is Visa. I don't know where you lived before, but if you're in the USA now, you should skate to where the puck is going, not where it's been.