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Of course they're taking sides. It's still taking sides when you get paid. Mercenaries take sides too, for money. I guess either Hollywood or American Politics
by tialaramex 11mo ago
Of course they're taking sides. It's still taking sides when you get paid. Mercenaries take sides too, for money.
I guess either Hollywood or American Politics tricks people into thinking there are always exactly two sides, but life isn't like that.
It is even entirely possible, and indeed profitable, to get paid by country A to help them kill country B's peasants, and by country B to help kill A's peasants and everybody is happy with this situation, except the peasants of course and maybe anybody who recognises that this is morally abhorrent...
- zahlman 11mo agoIf you get paid by both sides, you are not taking sides.
- tialaramex 11mo ago"Both" sides is exactly the Hollywood / US politics misunderstanding that I'm pointing at. They aren't working for "both" sides because that implies there are somehow exactly two parties. Are Hamas also big Microsoft customers? No. How about all those mistreated workers in Saudi Arabia, are they also hiring Microsoft? No again. Microsoft does two different awful things, that doesn't somehow cancel out, and when people insist that somehow it does they're at best showing that their understanding of morality is very limited and at worst desperately making excuses for evil.