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This was a nice video, and I'm glad I watched it. I could not help but notice, though, that (with one exception) he did not try to update the ten principles, a
by karaterobot 5y ago
This was a nice video, and I'm glad I watched it.
I could not help but notice, though, that (with one exception) he did not try to update the ten principles, as is claimed in the title. Instead, he just brought up counter-examples to poke holes in many of them.
It's really easy to come up with gotchas for almost anything.
It's like if I wanted to poke holes in a different set of ten commandments, and I said: "Thou shalt not kill? Really? What about killing a virus? What about killing a tree that's about to fall on your house? This rule makes no sense!"
But it does, basically. It's certainly better than the negation. If by coming up with edge cases where the rule doesn't make sense leads you to believe the rule is wrong in most cases, or even that you should do the opposite, then it's not a useful criticism.
It's much harder, but more useful, to make a positive declaration like: "this is what I believe is true" and then put it into practice.