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Radical suggestion: People are responsible for the actions they take, and not the actions of others. If I pick up a machete and begin lopping limbs off Canadian
by h2odragon 5y ago
Radical suggestion: People are responsible for the actions they take, and not the actions of others. If I pick up a machete and begin lopping limbs off Canadians, that's my bad, not Facebook's.
- jka 5y agoIf incidents of violence are isolated, then sure, you're making an understandable (and oft-repeated), if provocative, argument here based on individual freedom. It's possible to consider violence to be a contagious disease, however. Under that kind of lens, information platforms and communication tools could be seen as a transmission vector. It's hard to figure out what improvements could be if that's true; either way, it's another perspective. [1] - https://www.ted.com/talks/gary_slutkin_let_s_treat_violence_like_a_contagious_disease https://www.ted.com/talks/gary_slutkin_let_s_treat_violence_...
- vanusa 5y agoSo when people get trampled to death after you decided it would be funny to yell "Fire" in a crowded ... well that's their bad because after all it was the actions they took (emphasis yours) ...
- amorroxic 5y agoand unfortunately social makes it possible for one to yell “Fire” in all crowded places at the same time.