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In our society many of us subconsciously or sometimes consciously turn down the volume of our own conscience, because we'd rather not come face to face with our
by eevilspock 13y ago
In our society many of us subconsciously or sometimes consciously turn down the volume of our own conscience, because we'd rather not come face to face with our hypocrisy, our complicity with banal and not so banal evil [1], because we don't want to give up the benefits. In the Internet tech community, its ultimate manifestation is how we pretend advertising is not evil, while deep down know it is [2].
[1] The Banality of Systemic Evil, http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/the-banality.. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/the-banality....
[2] No free lunch, no free web, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6624666 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6624666
- anoncow 13y ago>Advertising simply shifts the cost of the "fee lunch" to the price of the advertised products. In other words we still end up paying. It may even shift costs regressively, toward lower incomes and the less educated, in which case the poor are subsidizing the better off. From the second link. However, >Without more data, we can't know.