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There is no guy, only the lawnmower, mowing lawns. Sometimes it chops off feet.
by cansofgrease 2mo ago
There is no guy, only the lawnmower, mowing lawns. Sometimes it chops off feet.
- philipov 2mo agoIt doesn't matter if the lawnmower is chopping off feat intentionally or not. If it's presenting a public hazard, it should be stopped. Even though the ocean couldn't care less it doesn't prevent us from building breakwalls. And Larry Ellison isn't unstoppable as the ocean.
- anon73044 2mo agoyou and what army are going to stop him?
- shevy-java 2mo agoThis seems to make Larry more harmless. A lawnmower does not think. Larry thinks, so it seems to white-wash Larry here. It's more like that movie with Stephen King where the cars and other machines turn actively evil. Hilarious movie too, not great but hilarious.
- king_crimson 2mo agoNever thought to hear someone here mention Maximum Overdrive. Indeed a hilarious movie and the only movie for which AC/DC ever recorded an (instrumental) soundtrack.
- philipov 2mo agoRather than harmless, what the lawnmower analogy achieves is to make him seem blameless. "How can you assign blame to a thing that's just doing what it's built to do without any intent?" It's important to push back against that. Intent isn't a necessary condition for something to be dangerous, and so it's not necessary to ask whether it is intentional or not. A rabid dog will be put down regardless of who is to blame for it.
- TimTheTinker 2mo agoI think the point of the lawnmower analogy is to subjectively characterize Larry Ellison and Oracle from the viewpoint of someone who has had the unfortunate experience of having to deal personally with either of them in some way. You feel powerless against the machine, as it were, and the best course of action is to keep yourself far from the blade.
- cheikhcheikh 2mo agoI think you both are missing the point. Hes sayin larry is inhuman, hes closer to an apex predator or a serial killer freak of nature than your ordinary human
- philipov 2mo agoWe're not missing the point, we simply don't agree. You're putting him too much on a pedestal. He's an ordinary human bound by the same laws anyone else. If he's criminally insane and can't be held accountable for his actions, he should be locked up in an mental institution, not running a corporation.
- yndoendo 2mo agoDon not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison. You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a 1958 Plymouth Fury named Christine. You don't anthropomorphize your killer car, the killer car is just out for blood - you rebuild it and it kills your friends and family, the end. You don't think 'oh, Christine hates me' - Christine doesn't give a * about you, Christine can't hate you. Don't anthropomorphize a 1958 Plymouth Fury named Christine. Don't fall into that trap about Oracle.
- selimthegrim 2mo agoWrong movie
- yndoendo 2mo agoTo me, Christine has a stronger resemblance. The owner of the car that rebuilds it so it can kill is the equivalent of the people that prop-up Oracle and companies like them. Maximum Overdrive has a mystic comet that happens to pass by and temporally creates the destruction.
- wavewrangler 2mo agoMaximum Overdrive. Even the electric turkey carver gets revenge.
- coliveira 2mo agoA lawnmower doesn't decide to do something bad by itself. The case with L.E. is much more sinister.