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I overstepped that and that was stalky. I do sincerely wish good things on you and your close ones, and we are all super on edge. It’s super hard times right no

I overstepped that and that was stalky. I do sincerely wish good things on you and your close ones, and we are all super on edge. It’s super hard times right now near what what supposed to be the sunshine after hibernation (isolation). I understand your emotional position with what we shall call equivalence, and while I cannot agree due to my own technoethical models, I can totally understand the want to see harm come to those that are causing so much pain to people you love and care about. The malicious Putin regime has caused so much suffering on the world and we all hope this will end here.

rosndo 5y ago
My main goal in this conversation wasn’t to advocate harming anybody. I’m genuinely curious why software should be special. It’s weird! OTOH I see this same pattern repeated over and over again in different communities. If you go to gaming forums, you will see people generally supportive of sanctions arguing that preventing Russians from paying for videogames is a borderline crime against humanity. They’ll say it’s unacceptable to bring politics into their little club. If you go to football forums, you’ll see Chelsea fans generally supportive of sanctions arguing that sanctioning Abramovich was a step too far (because it screws over their favourite team) On HN you’ll see people passionately arguing against ISPs pulling out of Russia (they can hardly get paid), or malware in what essentially amounts to business software (lets face it, regular people aren’t going to have their home computers wiped by the node-ipc silliness). Many people seem to be happy to support these things until it eventually hits too close to their own interests, then you begin to see all sort of mental gymnastics to justify how it should be different.

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I overstepped that and that was stalky. I do sincerely wish good things on you and your close ones, and we are all super on edge. It’s super hard times right no

by randomhodler84 5y ago

rosndo 5y ago
My main goal in this conversation wasn’t to advocate harming anybody. I’m genuinely curious why software should be special. It’s weird! OTOH I see this same pattern repeated over and over again in different communities. If you go to gaming forums, you will see people generally supportive of sanctions arguing that preventing Russians from paying for videogames is a borderline crime against humanity. They’ll say it’s unacceptable to bring politics into their little club. If you go to football forums, you’ll see Chelsea fans generally supportive of sanctions arguing that sanctioning Abramovich was a step too far (because it screws over their favourite team) On HN you’ll see people passionately arguing against ISPs pulling out of Russia (they can hardly get paid), or malware in what essentially amounts to business software (lets face it, regular people aren’t going to have their home computers wiped by the node-ipc silliness). Many people seem to be happy to support these things until it eventually hits too close to their own interests, then you begin to see all sort of mental gymnastics to justify how it should be different.