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When people make it about other people and or fail to prioritize common good matters, there is no common good, and it is all about "those other people." A few
by ddingus 6y ago
When people make it about other people and or fail to prioritize common good matters, there is no common good, and it is all about "those other people."
A few thoughts:
Your enemies benefit from Free Software, same as you do.
"Those other people" need to feed their kids, same as anyone does.
Even bigots need to see the doctor.
Assholes need clean water, same as anyone does.
We may be the asshole. In many cases, it depends on who is looking.
We may need to deal with software on a machine we own.
We may need to see the doctor.
Finally, say someone says or does bad, vile, unacceptable things.
There needs to be consequences, yes? I think so.
What incentive do they have to improve, make better choices when those things essentially have no end?
Like I said, food for thought.
- prepend 6y agoA friend of mine used to say stuff like “We should sterilize racists” and “We should execute all racists” stuff like that. I asked him once if he thought that would be a greater harm than the racism caused and he said he hadn’t thought about it but thought it would still be better off, even if it meant killing 20% of the population. I think people have good intentions-ending racism- but aren’t really thinking systematically on how to actually do it.