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by x220 7y ago
That's why police exist in the first place (if you're not thinking too cynically about it). The main job of police is to reduce vigilante justice and mob violence. If the police don't shut up someone's dog, convict a bla
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by x220 7y ago
The same Americans who talk about how Europeans don't have "real freedom of speech" get mad when their favorite political commentator gets censored on Youtube or Facebook or get mad when a riot keeps them from seeing someone
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by x220 7y ago
Americans have freedom on paper but they don't have any freedoms that matter. They have "freedom of speech" in the technical sense, but that freedom goes away once they get an audience that matters.
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by x220 7y ago
The freedom to oppress is no freedom at all
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by x220 7y ago
Blizzard is an international company with a ton of customers outside the US
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by x220 7y ago
Yes, it is. I've heard many examples of youtube channels with mildly conservative political opinions getting ranked far lower than the youtube algorithm should rank them. Since youtube isn't transparent with its creators we have t
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by x220 7y ago
Do you have any evidence that the free HK statement itself harmed Blizzard's business?
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by x220 7y ago
But nearly every large company in America engages in political discussion when they talk about diversity, feminism, and inclusion. I think that's a good thing, but it's clearly not the case that these companies shy away from makin
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by x220 7y ago
He didn't damage their reputation. Blizzard shot themselves in the foot.
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by x220 7y ago
The act didn't bring Blizzard into public dispute. Blizzard banning the player brings Blizzard into public disrepute because it shows that they are cowardly whores willing to do anything for money.
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by x220 7y ago
For anyone interested in psychology, reading The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker is a good introduction to many fundamental ideas of psychology and an overview of the problems that consciousness gives us and how humans handle those probl
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by x220 7y ago
You assume that a regime that does exterminate an ethnicity makes it appear from the outset as their ultimate goal. Historians of the Holocaust rigorously debate whether the Nazis intended from the start to exterminate all Jews worldwide. T
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by x220 7y ago
Avoiding the question entirely? I'd expect nothing less from someone who will be the last to suffer the consequences of automation.
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by x220 7y ago
Honor, too, is something not extended equally.
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by x220 7y ago
Do you think that there's any limit on what pronouns people can demand to be called? Can my pronoun be "intergalactic emperor/intergalactic emperor's/intergalactic emperor"? Can every person have their own uniq
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by x220 7y ago
I think that's politeness. I respect people for some achievement, skill, or contribution, for example. Respect is what we extend to some, and politeness is what we extend to everyone. It might sound like an asinine distinction, but the
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by x220 7y ago
People have called Brad Pitt "creepy". Would you rather live in a world where Brad Pitt had never acted so that some people wouldn't have to see his "creepiness"?
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by x220 7y ago
Creep is a useless term. You can say that anything is creepy.
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by x220 7y ago
If you don't speak you mind, sooner or later it will be too late to speak your mind and the system will become too constricting. It's telling that you are referring to overzealous cops when we're discussing SJWs pressuring rm
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by x220 7y ago
When is it not fine to make mistakes? You say that intentions go a long way (towards something), which makes it sound like it all depends on how this mistake is received by the transgender person. If there is no objective rule on how to acc
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by x220 7y ago
I think that respect is something earned and is not to be extended to everyone without distinction. If you think everyone should be called by their preferred pronouns, that's not respect.
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by x220 7y ago
Heads I win, tails you lose.
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by x220 7y ago
No, it's just the industry standard :)
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by x220 7y ago
It sounds to me like you think your plan would solve all problems with no additional costs or drawbacks for anyone involved.
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by x220 7y ago
Paternity is an objective biological relationship as well as a social construct. Just because paternity can be a social construct does not mean that all other socially constructed alternatives are equally useful, or can even lead to a stabl
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by x220 7y ago
>Most people think it's the right thing, too You only make the appeal to popularity when the public holds the same opinion as you. > Of course it's a cause for divorce though If your partner can divorce you for infidelity, t
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by x220 7y ago
>What matters is how it is said and somewhat by whom That means you can't say it. You might be able to say it, depending on who you upset.
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by x220 7y ago
So who decides if criticism undermines the legitimacy of justice? The same judges that are being criticized?
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by x220 7y ago
The government doesn't have the right to privacy. If you work for the government, people should have the right to know your name and what choices you made in an official capacity. France is practicing the opposite of transparency.
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by x220 7y ago
So the suffering of men doesn't matter and men should just silently deal with it? That sounds like toxic masculinity.

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