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If I say stealing a car is "criminal to the utmost degree" would you say "I'm sorry, but categorizing theft of property as criminal really dilutes the severity
by moate 4y ago
If I say stealing a car is "criminal to the utmost degree" would you say "I'm sorry, but categorizing theft of property as criminal really dilutes the severity of real criminal violations that have actually happened"?
I ask this because "human rights" is a wide and varied collection of thoughts and ideas ranging from the right to not be sexually assaulted to the right to not have businesses you interact with sell data about your sexual behaviors.
My point is, the whole conversation is subjective. You're both wrong in the eyes of some people and completely reasonable and correct in the eyes of others. Just some helpful framing you might want to use before "whatabouting" when people's lives may literally be on the line for this information being disseminated in their home countries.
From the safety of my home in an exceedingly liberal state in the US, working for an employer with a decent track record for inclusivity, I would be Big Mad if my grindr data was sold. From Chechnya, I would be terrified for my safety, physically as well as at a job, in the same situation.
TL;dr- When people stop being hate-crimed or state-santioned-murdered for being gay, the community will stop "overreacting" to people outing us against our wishes.
- pessimizer 4y ago> If I say stealing a car is "criminal to the utmost degree" would you say "I'm sorry, but categorizing theft of property as criminal really dilutes the severity of real criminal violations that have actually happened"? And I'm pretty sure that if we follow the argument to absurdity, all of us should only be talking about a single incident at a time. The worst one, that renders the rest not only irrelevant but disrespectful and insulting to the real victim.