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I don't know maybe just be worried instead about being on the side of justice and what is right and not be so worried if that side has people you don't like on
by _2d30 6mo ago
I don't know maybe just be worried instead about being on the side of justice and what is right and not be so worried if that side has people you don't like on it.
- chii 6mo agoa lot of people determine what is right by who is on that side - the right side is the group that they identify with, and the wrong side is the group they dislike. And you get the hilarious (if not sad) situations often, where the exact same actions is wrong if committed by one group, and right if done by some other group.
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- snapcaster 6mo agoThat's not hilarious or sad. It's valid to oppose your enemies and support your allies. It takes a certain kind of educated liberal bubble to think that is "hilarious"
- Eisenstein 6mo agoWhat happens is that it takes the form of attributing bad things to enemies and good things to allies, such that you are blind to where your allies are not your allies. If your allies are acting opposed to your interests but you like them because they signal to you as an in group, then you are being fooled by them. Thus, it is good to actually evaluate things on their merits once in a while.
- snapcaster 6mo agoThe "blind" ones are people like you! doing everything in good faith against people who aren't and fundamentally oppose you and your existence. Foolish!
- Eisenstein 6mo agoIt is only foolish if you would be happier as a cynic.
- snapcaster 6mo agoSitting down at a table to play poker and refusing to acknowledge the rest of the players are trying to take your money isn't "avoiding cynicism" it's just being a mark
- Eisenstein 6mo agoBut approaching every social interaction as a zero-sum game where you are competing with others is not only cynical but exhausting and makes one unbearable to be around. If you want to do that, then I guess you will be in good company hanging out with the bad-faith liars you feel are worth destroying your own values to combat.
- snapcaster 6mo agohave fun continuing to lose in a noble fashion
- jdlshore 6mo agoSome people think that justice should be blind, and that’s long been an ideal in the US.
- snapcaster 6mo agoI'm just so sick of people in our tribe who REFUSE to ever name their enemies. We're doing everything in good faith against people who hate us and want us to die. It's silly, and standing on some principle of equality while we continually lose over and over is sad to watch
- convolvatron 6mo agodoesn't that undermine the entire reason to have laws? if they are really just excuse to punish our enemies and reward our friends, why even bother with the pretense of a trial?
- GoblinSlayer 6mo agoLaws protect interests of the ruling class. If interests are insufficient reason, then what is sufficient?
- snapcaster 6mo agoThe reason we have laws is to protect the powerful from mobs right?
- PunchyHamster 6mo agoIt leads to keeping the bad people on your "side" just because they share some of the values > It takes a certain kind of educated liberal bubble to think that is "hilarious" No, the hilarious part is that the "educated liberal bubble" will do exactly that thing, and then wonder why everyone else is seeing them as crazies; because they'd rather side with bad actors on their side purely because other side is attacking them, no matter the reason. And of course, not only them. It's natural human herd behavior. And it leads to absolutely terrible end results The crime is the crime. No matter the leaning of the criminal
- sethaurus 6mo agoIt's a matter of integrity. Support or oppose whoever you like, but if you change your principles based on the person in question, then you don't have principles at all.
- GoblinSlayer 6mo agoWhy not, people are different and principles can account for that. It might mean that your alignment isn't fully lawful.
- snapcaster 6mo agoAre you pro or anti touchdown? Do you support or oppose winning? Is supporting my allies winning and enemies losing wrong?
- beepbooptheory 6mo agoIts "valid" to do anything in this context weirdo, it isnt like a veridical thing! "It is valid to love my mom, even when she makes me clean my room. This is the thing liberals will never understand." Don't you have some "cathedral" you gotta go neckbeard on about somewhere else? Perhaps a divorce court hearing?
- snapcaster 6mo agoWow you got my demographics and political opinions wrong entirely! We almost certainly vote for the same people. I'm just so sick of people in our tribe who REFUSE to ever name their enemies. We're doing everything in good faith against people who hate us and want us to die. It's silly, and standing on some principles while we continually lose over and over is sad to watch
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- Dylan16807 6mo agoSupport your allies, yes. Think everything they do is right? Hell no. And every once in a while you need to check if your list of allies should change.
- lowercased 6mo agoMaybe I dislike a party because they're wrong, not that I think they're wrong becuase I dislike them? I usually don't have any reason to like or dislike a party until I see behaviour.
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- throwaway894345 6mo agoPresumably the parent’s objection to ISPs and copyright cartels is precisely that they are so frequently (and to such a large degree) unjust. FWIW, I don’t think the parent’s objection was subtle about that point, I’m frankly not sure how it was overlooked.
- _2d30 6mo agoFrankly, I don't see how you can't parse that their point, as written, is "I'm on the side of bad guy A because bad guy B is worse than bad guy A" which is completely orthogonal to "A is in the right and B is in the wrong".
- throwaway894345 6mo agoBecause I'm a native English speaker and "worse" is definitely not orthogonal to "in the wrong".
- BizarroLand 6mo agoIf you look at the whole scenario, this will mean that Cox won't pass $1 billion dollars of punitive fines off to their customers, because, after all, the customers generate the money. In reality, this would have made their innocent customers pay for the crimes of their guilty customers and made both Sony, and in the long run, Cox richer, because once paying an extra $5/month becomes normalized, then there's no way they're going to go back down in price just because the fine is paid off, any more than the government will ever stop charging tolls on a toll bridge that was paid for by tolls no matter how many times the cost of the toll bridge is paid off.
- jonny_eh 6mo agoI said "allow it". It was mainly about my feelings. I can feel what I want. It also just so happens that Cox was in the right and Sony Music was in the wrong.
- naasking 6mo ago> not be so worried if that side has people you don't like on it. I think the point is that they don't like Sony music because they are so often on the wrong side, this time included.