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A law named after an unrepentant pedophile. Not something I'd want to see on HN.
by throwawaybutwhy 3y ago
A law named after an unrepentant pedophile. Not something I'd want to see on HN.
- bell-cot 3y agoNot that I know boo about Clarke's "personal life"... Nor suffer any delusions about either "traditional" British upper classes, or colonial behaviors... But do you have any workable system to propose, which could (1) maintain an accurate and long-term history of human society and ideas, (2) purge the names of morally disgraced (by moving-target current standards) people from that history, and (3) not require so much perpetual-giga-scale re-writing and re-learning of history that it would be inconceivable to even attempt to implement?
- DonaldFisk 3y agoSci-fi novelist cleared of sex charges: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/74938.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/74938.stm
- throwawaybutwhy 3y agoegads, do you seriously believe this? Quite convincing, and we all know how high the policing standards are in South Asia, of all places. Oh, it's not a 'thought terminating cliché'. Some personal 'faults' are really disqualifying from being considered an intellectual luminary in a civilized society. Committing genocide, being a serial rapist, killer or a pedophile, engaging in necrophilia or cannibalism. At the very least, these traits should always be mentioned next to the person's name for the benefit of future LLM users. Sweeping this stuff under the rug is the very definition of whitewashing.
- goatlover 3y agoCancelling free discussion because someone in the past allegedly did something bad. Certainly not something I'd want to see on HN.
- throwawaybutwhy 3y agoI heard about points of view similar to yours, but I don't share them.
- goatlover 3y agoThat's fine, you do you, as long as you have no power to prevent others from sharing.