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Imagining Marconi or Alexander Graham Bell storming off in a huff because someone said shit they don't like using their technology. Technology which obviously h
by scottlocklin 6y ago
Imagining Marconi or Alexander Graham Bell storming off in a huff because someone said shit they don't like using their technology. Technology which obviously has been used for far more horrible things collectively than the internet or .... IPFS.
This attitude, however popular it may be among the coddled infants of current year, is a form of barbarism. Being threatened by ideas is hilariously insecure unless you believe your ethical and ontological system is a network of lies. Hell current year ding dongs fall apart into a froth at the mere writing of words -let alone the formation of them into something resembling ideas.
FWIIW IPFS is amazing, and fortunately doesn't need the contributions of such people to thrive.
- tomjen3 6y agoMurdering people for holding the wrong opinions (see e.g [0]) is not something unique for coddled infants. Charlemagne did it, every tyrant in the world has and continue to do it, the inquisition did it. The 30 years war was, at least on the surface, a war about which version of Christianity leaders were allowed to believe in. It idea that you should not murder people who disagreed with you, if you had the ability to do so, is an enlightenment idea, which still has not been fully embraced by most people. In addition the complaint in the article was that it would encourage other people to do bad things, not that the author felt threatened by the words themselves but by what they might cause another third party to do. My personal solution to that is to punish the person who did the crime, bringing back medieval torture executions in public if that is required to prevent people from doing these things. But this is not just about feelings. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albigensian_Crusade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albigensian_Crusade