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This is a pretty bleak look at the future tbh. Guess the bullies won in the end, except this time the bullies believe they are in the right.
by nanagojo 5y ago
This is a pretty bleak look at the future tbh. Guess the bullies won in the end, except this time the bullies believe they are in the right.
- dudul 5y agoDon't bullies always believe they are in the right?
- yerwhat01010 5y agoDoesn't everybody?
- phinnaeus 5y agoI feel pretty comfortable saying that all bullies feel they are right.
- topkai22 5y agoI suspect many bullies are indifferent to right or wrong.
- baobabKoodaa 5y agoEverybody needs to sleep at night. Not many people are psychopaths; the rest of us need to weave stories to tell ourselves that "we're really the good guys".
- lmm 5y agoNah. Plenty know that they're doing what they want at the expense of other people. But the bullies who think they're doing something good are the most dangerous, since they don't have any moral qualms about how far they take things.
- dataduck 5y ago“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” ― C. S. Lewis
- wpietri 5y agoIf you are concerned about bullying, you might also look at the long past history of oppression that we've been undoing in recent decades.
- haram_masala 5y agoI’ll call your comment an example of “intertemporal whataboutism.”
- lamontcg 5y agoThe bullies at the top are getting worried that people are standing up to them.
- thu2111 5y agoMaybe. To me this article is useful because it precisely bounds the size of the group that genuinely feels this way. 13%. Not that large, really. Could a determined company get rid of half of those, sending a strong message to the other half to get back to work? Yeah, definitely. Could you refuse to hire people with these views without significantly losing out in the market for skilled employees? I think so, especially as they skew young (i.e. inexperienced). It wasn't really clear before how large this group of radicals is because they are so aggressive and noisy. But they're a small minority.
- thrwyoilarticle 5y agoI can't connect anything in the article to bullying.