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> There is absolutely nothing noble about it. The cause, not the execution. I never said that the execution was noble. The phrase “noble cause” is used to desc
by Tabular-Iceberg 5y ago
> There is absolutely nothing noble about it.
The cause, not the execution. I never said that the execution was noble. The phrase “noble cause” is used to describe this exact kind of situation, where the ends don’t justify the means.
That they botched the execution was my entire point. Rounding up homos was easy and made themselves look good in the eyes of the public. Much easier than identifying and rounding up actual spies. I’m talking about the perverse incentives here.
- locallost 5y agoAll countries have spies and all fight foreign spies all the time. If you find this fight noble, so be it, but it's not really relevant. McCarthyism was really just a total abuse of power, a witch hunt only several times amplified through the power of modern media. And it destroyed the lives of thousands of people for no reason at all. So sorry, but I don't like it being mentioned in any kind of a positive context. There wasn't any.
- Tabular-Iceberg 5y agoWhere do you see it being used in a positive context? I used it as an example of something that’s bad, how is that “a positive context”?