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by einhverfr 7y ago
That is a point. It would be better though is we recognized Google as something of a common carrier and insisted that they do not try to be the arbiter of what is true.
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by einhverfr 7y ago
Rousseau certainly had an interesting relationship to the rise of Liberalism. And I am often unsure of whether to count him among the developers or enemies of the movement. I can read him both ways. Your second point is I think correct on
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by einhverfr 7y ago
I agree. A live-and-let-live view is best across cultural divides.
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by einhverfr 7y ago
The original point was in-depth discussion of things like dietary restrictions necessarily come to political questions. The counter-argument seems to be "don't discuss anything in depth."
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by einhverfr 7y ago
> How is it a betrayal of anything or anyone to vote for the better of two viable options (according to your own opinion)? How do you weigh two options when one has a record of imposing very long-term harms (PRWORA has now been on the bo
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by einhverfr 7y ago
It's also very easy to fire someone in the US compared to many other countries.
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by einhverfr 7y ago
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvc77gn1 for starters. If we understand Liberalism to be a social philosophy tradition starting with Hobbes, being further developed in various forms through Locke, Rousseau, Adam Smith,
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by einhverfr 7y ago
I think the bigger issue is that Google is publicly traded.
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by einhverfr 7y ago
And what happens when you have a global company setting itself up as the gatekeeper of information and of ranking information by truth value? What of such disagreements then?
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by einhverfr 7y ago
By the way I agree that we should lead by example but I don't know how you can get beyond the fact that different evils are so different they cannot be directly weighed off each other. For example how do you weigh the draining of capit
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by einhverfr 7y ago
Because to vote for someone defending PRWORA would be a betrayal of what my family went through. It was at that point vote third party or stay home. I think if I had it to do over again I would vote third party.
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by einhverfr 7y ago
So the individualist seeks authority to impose individualism globally through, for example, treaties like TPP etc? Or am I missing something?
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by einhverfr 7y ago
Yeah. In one of the worse incidents in Germany, to the credit of Germans, the majority of adults in the around came to my kids' defense. I tell them to try to be thankful for the culture of being helpful, but it was a hard thing for t
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by einhverfr 7y ago
As an aside, I came to Gandhi's views on nationalism while living in Indonesia. Gandhi was a genius there and his views on the rightful place of nationalism have shaped a continent for the better.
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by einhverfr 7y ago
I am not sure that's the assumption behind it, but I do agree these things are products of assumptions. I have ideas for how I would organize a company if I had a blank slate. However, usually if you start getting investment, the disc
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by einhverfr 7y ago
Fair enough but it still does not reach a fair cross-section of society.
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by einhverfr 7y ago
Why on earth are we at war with Estonia??? Oh wait. Nevermind.
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by einhverfr 7y ago
The larger issue is that if we accept a correct scope of work to be including someone's sense of social justice, then what happens when you now have a lot of people from very different cultures perhaps with very different views of cult
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by einhverfr 7y ago
In what sense allowed?
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by einhverfr 7y ago
And to Alphabet's defense, if it is exclusively aimed at disruptive behavior then that's fine. But the proof of the pudding is in the eating.
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by einhverfr 7y ago
By the way, I don't have a problem drawing the line at disruptive political debates. However, I don't trust companies to evenly apply such rules.
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by einhverfr 7y ago
Elizabeth Warren would be center-right in Europe. Bernie might be center-left depending on country.
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by einhverfr 7y ago
Two orders of magnitude would put them at a million employees?
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by einhverfr 7y ago
>The American political spectrum is way bigger than the political spectrum in most European countries. There's a lot more potential for deep disagreement in the US when people talk politics. Ummmm.... The entire American political s
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by einhverfr 7y ago
> Whether one sees a distinction between these two concepts may align with one's position on the spectrum between individualist and authoritarian. Or maybe not, I really don't know... If so, then we would assume that people who
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by einhverfr 7y ago
It's almost like Google wants to track and deliver advertising. Almost like they have some financial interest in determining user behavior so they can deliver more targeted ads. Almost like they are an adware company. Nah, can't
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by einhverfr 7y ago
>Sure you can. You can have an attitude of tolerance, of acceptance, and embrace different opinions/stances. Judge a little less, worry a little less about what others do. Completely agreed on that point. In fact that's how po
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by einhverfr 7y ago
What do you mean by political then? How is it separate from ethical?
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by einhverfr 7y ago
A few ways the wars have affected my life: 1. I was commuting between Sweden and Denmark when the refugee crisis (people fleeing our efforts at proxy civil war in Syria, and our efforts at direct war in Iraq and Afghanistan) caused the Swe
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by einhverfr 7y ago
It is protected discussion under the US Constitution since Yates v. United States hamstrung sedition prosecutions over the government going after dissidents, particularly Communists. Mind you I sat the last election out because I was so tho

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