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"We shouldn't give Burma the internet because they might commit a genocide" Do you hear yourself? Let's not give them electricity and fossil fuels either. Just

• ben_w 4mo ago
  > Do you hear yourself? Better than you heard me, given that's not what I said.
  • solid_fuel 4mo ago
    This is an uphill battle, I'm afraid. As evidenced from their other comments, slibhb struggles a lot with basic moral concepts like "you are responsible for the things you do".
  • slibhb 4mo ago
    It's very fashionable for Westerners to evince belief in the idea that inhabitants of third-world countries have no free will and aren't responsible for their actions. We're told that everything bad that happens in those countries is due to large Western companies or a history of colonization. This is all very silly. The genocide in Myanmar (it's a civil war last I checked) isn't Facebook's fault (legally or morally). Facebook has surely made mistakes, but that doesn't make them to blame for people killing each other on the other side of the world.
    • ben_w 4mo ago
      You're still shadow-boxing with what you want me to have written, not what I actually wrote.
      • slibhb 4mo ago
        I reread your posts, and no. You seem unaware of what your posts imply about the agency of certain groups of human beings.