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Yes this is what 4chan is about since the early days. It’s an outlet for youth to explore edgy memes and dark humour in the confines of the internet. You’d fin

Yes this is what 4chan is about since the early days. It’s an outlet for youth to explore edgy memes and dark humour in the confines of the internet. You’d find transphobia and crude racist remarks all the way back on 90s Internet, and you wouldn’t have to go looking for it. Gamers were never the soft bunch and online communities of younger guys were known to be competitive and ruthless. I hope this is still the case. I would rather have an Internet where a bit of thicker skin is required but freedom to say anything is maintained, than one where we are shielding and coddling people from uncomfortable thoughts - whether or not they are morally or factually right/wrong is an exercise left to the reader. You choose your own level of involvement. Again, just my opinion. PS. I’m not justifying the raiding they did on your community. Merely saying it’s par for the course of an unhinged internet. This stuff happened across the Internet. 4chan made it out alive for us to heckle and deride.

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uniqueid 6y ago
Many people have difficulty distinguishing between what they enjoy, and what benefits humanity. For example, a group of children might derive pleasure from singling out and making fun of a classmate. That they enjoy behaving so doesn't mean it improves their school. There are online communities that service humanity's worst instincts. It would be nice if people who get off on sites like that were able to recognize that their enjoyment doesn't make the sites a net benefit to everyone else.
- raxxorrax 6y ago
  > Many people have difficulty distinguishing between what they enjoy, and what benefits humanity. The would get you many f-words on 4chan and they would be right. Might want to look up totalitarian dictatorships vs. authoritarian. Don't be shocked if you find yourself in there with your ambition to improve humanity. No site needs to be a net benefit to "everyone else" (without evidence on your part). This is getting ridiculous...
  - uniqueid 6y ago
    No site needs to be a net benefit to "everyone else" That isn't the point. It's one thing for Jane to tell me smoking in bars should be legal. We can have a real debate over that. It's another for Jane to claim her cigar smoke is good for my health. That discussion, I would not entertain seriously.

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uniqueid 6y ago

Many people have difficulty distinguishing between what they enjoy, and what benefits humanity. For example, a group of children might derive pleasure from singling out and making fun of a classmate. That they enjoy behaving so doesn't mean it improves their school. There are online communities that service humanity's worst instincts. It would be nice if people who get off on sites like that were able to recognize that their enjoyment doesn't make the sites a net benefit to everyone else.

raxxorrax 6y ago
> Many people have difficulty distinguishing between what they enjoy, and what benefits humanity. The would get you many f-words on 4chan and they would be right. Might want to look up totalitarian dictatorships vs. authoritarian. Don't be shocked if you find yourself in there with your ambition to improve humanity. No site needs to be a net benefit to "everyone else" (without evidence on your part). This is getting ridiculous...
- uniqueid 6y ago
  No site needs to be a net benefit to "everyone else" That isn't the point. It's one thing for Jane to tell me smoking in bars should be legal. We can have a real debate over that. It's another for Jane to claim her cigar smoke is good for my health. That discussion, I would not entertain seriously.