I don't get this trend of finding someone identifying legitimate problems with the best available option and trying to have discussion on a discussion website and drowning them with "B-b-but everyone else is worse! If we didn't have [lesser evil] then we would surely have [greater evil]! Why do you want [greater evil]???"
purahna
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He is a rapist. Yes, let's censor him. He's also a dipshit brainwormed neocon, but that sadly isn't enough to censor someone, but surely having multiple corroborated rape allegations is enough to get someone deplatformed, right?
that quote still actually applies if you accommodate the fact that he didn't actually count Indians as human beings
Alright, from the very words of your own comment:
At some point, does it matter?
in direct response to my comment
Who decides what is stupid and what isn’t?
Yes, it does matter. If you want to "Give people the resources to educate themselves", you have to have a definition of stupid and not stupid that guides your choice of what is and isn't good education; in order to "Give them the benefit of the doubt, once", you have to have a criteria for when they've stopped being stupid.
Exactly. So we can't just "Treat stupidity as a type of malice", because nobody can agree on what is and isn't stupidity.
they them is basically always safe! If someone specifically requests against it then don't but they/them is what I always use if I don't know or have multiple options. All I might add is that a lot of queer people get tired of being only called their AGAB's pronouns, so maybe don't exclusively use those.
Okay, sure, what about vaccines then? Hypothetically, I think the idea that we shoot ourselves full of mercury and viruses is extremely stupid. Malicious too, by your model. And also, I don't think climate change is real, so now I think you're stupid and you think I'm stupid and it's he said she said and if we both think the other is being malicious we have a brawl. The thing that fixes this is a definition of "stupid" that we both agree on that is clear, useful, and objective. What is that definition?
Doing so would be a valuable contribution to the discussion and morally good so I sure hope so
lmao "I'm not transphobic, I know a trans person on the internet who caters to my specific interests"