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Should you judged by the views and actions of others who self-identify as "hackers"? If the label includes people with a wide range of fundamentally incompatibl
by coolj 13y ago
Should you judged by the views and actions of others who self-identify as "hackers"? If the label includes people with a wide range of fundamentally incompatible views, it's not very useful to use as a yard stick. It looks a lot like guilt by association.
- lmm 13y ago> Should you judged by the views and actions of others who self-identify as "hackers"? Yes > It looks a lot like guilt by association. Your political affiliation is your own choice, so it doesn't seem to have that unfairness.
- fdg543 13y agoSo it's fair to say that we can judge all liberals as having Fidel Castro-like views because he identifies himself as a liberal, correct?
- yummyfajitas 13y agoSo it's fair to judge Democrats as guilty by association in this case? (Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Marisa Mayer, Eric Schmidt and Steve Jobs all self-identify as "Democrat", not "[Ll]ibertarian". The president of Adobe is on Obama's PMAB. I can't find info on the others with 3 minutes of googling.)
- lmm 13y agoSure, although I'm not sure the hypocrisy line is terribly effective here. A bunch of people who think regulations are necessary to stop corporations exploiting their workers turn out to run corporations that exploit workers? Well, yeah, isn't that exactly what you'd expect?
- dllthomas 13y agoMost association is your own choice.
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