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But you are defending a home raid on someone who was not brought to trial, but was making a politcal and moral point about corporate tools and corporate behavio
by TheOtherHobbes 5y ago
But you are defending a home raid on someone who was not brought to trial, but was making a politcal and moral point about corporate tools and corporate behaviours.
When you think criticism - oblique, but clearly still harmless - is more of a problem than the behaviours, you are very much trying to shoot the messenger.
- bbarnett 5y agoI think, as soon as he became the actor as well, he ceased being "the messager" in the terms of solely passing on a message. Put another way, "shoot the messenger" is a phrase used when an unbiased person, merely delivering a message of bias/harm from another, is attacked for the message. You are not a messenger, when you perform the act/deed/thing yourself.
- NotEvil 5y agoThat is what I don't understand why he can't be a messenger and an actor at the same time. Everything doesn't have to be black and white you know
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- SamoyedFurFluff 5y agoThen it isn’t shooting the messenger because they’re also an actor? Being a messenger doesn’t grant someone immunity from being critiqued for doing unethical things.
- NotEvil 5y agoNo, it don't. But being an actor doesn't mean an individual can't be an messanger doing something in good faith. "Dooing good, through bad methods"
- overboard2 5y ago>But you are defending a home raid on someone who was not brought to trial He should have been brought to trial