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[Frank Wimberly]

To me "RMS" denotes Richard M. Stallman but that's because I'm old I guess.

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Frank Wimberly

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On Mon, Oct 28, 2019, 10:46 AM uǝlƃ ☣ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

> I doubt it. I forget who the aphorism is attributed to, but "Never ascribe
> malice when incompetence will suffice" comes to mind. These subversive
> approaches may simply stretch the competencies and energy of the people who
> would otherwise carry them out. It's possible that it's simply too
> difficult to do the work, especially if the motivations and incentives are
> occult. Being paid in anything but money (which can be hidden in havens) is
> risky ... as the recent flak around RMS and the arc of Julian Assange
> demonstrate well enough. Both the Spencer-types and the sucker puncher are
> "in it" for the cheap thrills because anything more complex is too taxing.
>
> But my proposition above is only convenient and a direct consequence of my
> doubt that there are such things as "moral intuition" or (in my other
> argument) "ethical intuition" [
> https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/ethical-intuitionism/]. We're always promoting
> our brain farts (ideas, feelings, faith-based beliefs, etc.) to
> ontologically dubious Real Things. My guess is there are no deeply
> ingrained things at all. It's relatively easy to radicalize an otherwise
> easy-going person. [https://youtu.be/P55t6eryY3g] Deprogramming cult
> members seems to consist mostly of changing their environment.
> Powerstancing may not make you feel powerful. Smiling may not make you feel
> happy, etc. It seems safer to assume infinite universal plasticity and
> induce ontology from data than to assume there exist viscously robust
> structures and all we need do is test for them.
>
> On 10/28/19 8:18 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> > In both situations, putting aside the legal risks, I think this
> subversive approach violates some deeply ingrained notion of fairness.   I
> can't see an explanation why it isn't happening all the time other than
> self-censoring.   Because if it were happening all the time, then folks
> like Spencer would be absent from the world.
>
>
> --
> ☣ uǝlƃ
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