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Eh, I guess it really depends on how you define "inherently bad." For example, I'd also call "shooting people" inherently bad, but there are certainly cases whe
by CobrastanJorji 4y ago
Eh, I guess it really depends on how you define "inherently bad." For example, I'd also call "shooting people" inherently bad, but there are certainly cases where a specific shooting is a net good (self defense, etc). It sounds like your definition is different and may require any possible instance to be bad.
- shuntress 4y agoWe could spend all day spinning our wheels on increasingly pedantic hypotheticals but it's not exactly productive discussion. Non-consensual acts of violence are always inherently bad even when they are "provoked" by reprehensible acts (three rights make a left and all that). "shooting people" with X-Rays to image their internal structures for medical purposes is generally accepted to be good.
- santoshalper 4y agoYes, and I'd say the same thing about advertising, though obviously on a lesser scale. All advertising is bad. Some advertising is merely less bad. Advertising that appears in Apps or Software I paid for is hot garbage 100% of the time.
- shkkmo 4y agoBy your own argument and definition, advertising is inherently bad: Advertising being good is a edge case that requires specific circumstances.
- SuperCuber 4y agoI'm pretty sure that is the point GP was trying to make