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Maybe you should apply HN comment etiquette outside of HN. >Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one tha
by undersuit 2y ago
Maybe you should apply HN comment etiquette outside of HN.
>Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
The strongest good faith interpretation of "the CEO must die" is that it is not a call to action for murdering "the CEO". But we'll let the author clarify:
>“The CEO is more than an individual it is a figurehead of the capitalist order,” he wrote. “When we say the ceo must die, we mean the structure of capitalism must be broken.”
- idlewords 2y agoI interpret the author's clarification as backpedaling by someone who enjoyed making an inflammatory statement but didn't want to stand behind it.
- undersuit 2y agoWho is "the CEO"? Is it all 52? So you have decided from the start to take the uncharitable take.
- EA-3167 2y agoI'm pretty sure that if someone posted that here, in the context of making "most wanted" list... they'd be banned. Good faith is for arguments, not calls to murder.
- tptacek 2y agoYou can use the search bar below to see that this is in fact true: this is a quick way to get banned on HN.
- undersuit 2y agothe CEO must die. And now we wait.
- EA-3167 2y agoA stunt like that is precisely why I was clear about the CONTEXT. Note that I'm not encouraging you to actually do it, far from it, but lets not pretend that you're bravely proving a point here.
- undersuit 2y agoYou're free to ignore the context of a person saying "the CEO must die" after years railing against capitalism. I'm just going to call you out for it.