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I know you are steelman-ing the argument here (& thank you), but that sounds like "the ends justify the means". (I do agree that the cost in lives here is a re

I know you are steelman-ing the argument here (& thank you), but that sounds like "the ends justify the means". (I do agree that the cost in lives here is a real, real problem. People need to own up that their actions have impact on other people…)

gretch 5y ago
When you use the idiom “ends justify the means”, it summons an imagery of eugenics or genocide eg “in order to have a crime free society, we must exterminate <ethnic group> The “means” in question is Liking and Retweeting on Twitter and the “ends” is preventing vaccine misinformation. So one might reasonably conclude that _these_ ends justify _these_ means