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Is this satire?
by 0des 5y ago
Is this satire?
- eyelidlessness 5y agoI can’t speak for GP, but ostracizing and shunning are pretty much the assumed enforcement mechanism—when they’re articulated—among people with libertarian principles when those principles are applied consistently. “Cancelling” is far more humane than incarceration or other forms of punishment, because you can emigrate elsewhere. It’s also far less likely to create implicit hierarchies if it’s commonplace.
- 0des 5y agoSo someone misplaces their idealism and your solution is canceling them until they must emigrate? Who are you people?
- eyelidlessness 5y agoI mean I’m not asking for anything to be done here at all, but I hope you’d agree that “someone misplaced their idealism” would be better served by a trip to another package registry than a trip to prison… right? Who are me people? I’m not that organized. I’m just observing that “cancelling” has a philosophical underpinning in even more theoretically libertarian thought than which I personally endorse. I think it’s worth the observation because the people who most object share similar philosophies. I do have a strong sense of freedom of association which makes me sympathetic to that idea. I also understand it’s not the end of the conversation. But I find the hypocrisy of ideological freedom contrasted with freedom to associate really galling.