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Personally, I think we should stop looking for sinless saviors, and embrace good ideas regardless of their origin.
by ta8645 3y ago
Personally, I think we should stop looking for sinless saviors, and embrace good ideas regardless of their origin.
- gigatexal 3y agoHard to do. We are humans seeking tribes. If Linus was some unsavory alt right guy with extreme beliefs I’d not align myself with the project he created. Also Stallman is so polarizing and creepy imo that it hurts furthering his ideas of free software. Imagine he took a more mainstream inclusive approach he’d go further.
- ta8645 3y agoYou're right, it is hard to do. But a little compassion and empathy goes a long way. Publically calling someone polarizing and creepy might feel good, but it is hurtful and unhelpful.
- codeflo 3y ago> hurtful Listen, the man publicly defended Epstein's system of coercion and claimed that his victims were "willing". If you seriously think it's the people pointing that out who are the ones lacking empathy and behaving "hurtfully", there's something very broken with your moral compass.
- ta8645 3y ago> If you seriously think it's the people pointing that out who are the ones lacking empathy and behaving "hurtfully", I do seriously believe that, and my moral compass is intact. Empathy is easy to give, for those you understand and identify with. It is more difficult to show empathy and compassion for people with whom you disagree, and don't fully understand. There's every reason to believe that whatever Stallman's statements were, they don't represent the totality of the man, or mean that he's evil to the core. His humanity remains, and can be safely acknowledged, without meaning you agree or support with everything he's done.
- Brian_K_White 3y agoListen, the man did no such thing. It's always the intolerant ones charging others with lacking empathy and broken moral compasses.