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I have absolutely no sympathy for Musk but the president--any president--shouldnt be able to do this.
by deeg 1y ago
I have absolutely no sympathy for Musk but the president--any president--shouldnt be able to do this.
- consumer451 1y agoThe biggest self-indictment in that post by POTUS was "I was always surprised Biden didn't do it!" I am not surprised that Biden didn't cancel all SpaceX contracts for political reasons, neither are most rational people.
- jyounker 1y agoTrump doesn't believe that smart people with power can have ethics or morality because he doesn't have them himself.
- majormajor 1y agoIt's not ethics or morality, it's just "not being a child." A president not personally retaliating against a critic doesn't need to have anything to do with ethics, it's just requires a post-middle-school mentality of "I may not be happy with this person but I [my country] can still benefit from things they do."
- ithkuil 1y agoThe property of "being a child" in an adult is effectively a matter of ethics and morality
- randomNumber7 1y agoNo, it can be justified with rationality alone.
- lostlogin 1y agoRational and ethical have a lot of overlap.
- ithkuil 1y agoI phrased it poorly: Being an adult child has moral and ethical consequences. Behaviours and emotions that are totally legit and tolerated in a child are no longer so in an adult. An adult that has all the privileges and freedoms of adulthood over childhood, like the ability to vote, drink, drive and hold an office, also has to abide by the moral obligations of being an adult.
- majormajor 1y agoBut if you're rich enough (or poor enough, hah) nobody's gonna hold you to "adult behavior" standards. Is there really a moral or ethical aspect to "don't get into a shouting match on Twitter"? Or is it simply childish?
- ithkuil 1y ago> But if you're rich enough [..] nobody's gonna hold you to "adult behavior" standards but that's a problem, isn't it? That's on us. Why on earth did we stop expecting adult behaviour from ultra-rich people?