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There are a lot of people who have never faced the decision “Do I stand up for what’s right when it means my family will be murdered?”. While you’re clearly fam
by floatingatoll 6y ago
There are a lot of people who have never faced the decision “Do I stand up for what’s right when it means my family will be murdered?”. While you’re clearly familiar with another scenario where that happened, others aren’t, and so the parent comment may help them realize that.
- strogonoff 6y agoWe don’t have evidence that the latter engineer was actually facing a choice between implementing the feature and non-figuratively sacrificing their and their family’s life. Unlike the 70+ year old precedent I was alluding to, for a talented software engineer of non-Uyghur descent in competitive modern China forever robbing yourself and everyone from your family of the opportunity to advance up the party hierarchy may well qualify as “very huge consequences”—meanwhile, what the feature in question facilitates may well qualify as a crime under international law.