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No, you can’t without being a hypocrite. It sure is convenient to take a moral stance when it has no real impact on your life and just throws others under the b
by dcow 1y ago
No, you can’t without being a hypocrite. It sure is convenient to take a moral stance when it has no real impact on your life and just throws others under the bus. But try applying your morality consistently and you will find it’s effectively impossible. So ultimately you’re just picking issues to complain about based on the current political climate, not actually taking a fundamental principled moral stance on an issue—you’re not making the world a better place.
Add to that the value that good search provides humanity, even Ukrainians and Russians against the war, and it’s not even obvious that boycotting a company that does a minuscule amount of business with a Russian company is doing more good than harm. So you’re arguably actually perpetuating harm more than reducing it.
- cosmicgadget 1y ago> No, you can’t without being a hypocrite. I literally said this. Please read. > a company that does a minuscule amount of business with a Russian company Should be easy to excise then.
- dcow 1y agoNot if it provides value. And Kagi thinks it does. Please demonstrate or reason that Kagi buying Yandex’s search index (1) does harm and (2) does more harm than good.
- cosmicgadget 1y agoIt contributes to the Russian economy and oligarchy, both are key drivers of the invasion. People like you love to say Ukraine won't win the war as if the end of the war is going to be on the battlefield.