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I remember when his death hit the news, my twitter timeline was full of hash-tags and posts and links. I didn't even knew the guy, then I decided to browse wiki
by atmosx 13y ago
I remember when his death hit the news, my twitter timeline was full of hash-tags and posts and links. I didn't even knew the guy, then I decided to browse wikipedia and see who he is. I was impressed to say the least.
It's too bad that many activists, who want clearly an open, just and more socially enabled world, have a psyche that is so fragile. But apparently the two things are correlated: If you are sensitive, you might very well be fragile.
Now given the fact that tampering 40.000 criminal cases[1] give you 3 to 5 years, I don't see how publishing MIT documents can be so dangerous for the society.
[1] http://filmingcops.com/corrupt-government-chemist-tampered-with-40000-cases-locking-countless-innocent-americans-in-prison/ http://filmingcops.com/corrupt-government-chemist-tampered-w...
- 3rd3 13y agoI wonder how we can create a social system that has incentives for sensitive people to become leaders. I think, the insensitivity that is necessary to become a leader is one of, or even the most fatal flaws of all types of societies we have come up so far.
- atmosx 13y agoI never thought this approach, but you are correct. Sensitive people are true believers and thus much harder to corrupt. I don't have the faintest idea on how we could achieve this on our televised democracy, but I'd be interested on reading other's opinion on the matter.