Re:Women Engineers on the Rampant Sexism of Silicon Valley
by neotrope on Thursday June 08, 2017 @02:12PM
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By your definition, what Hitler did wasn't "wrong". Moral relativism is a slippery slope.
Re:Women Engineers on the Rampant Sexism of Silicon Valley
by FussyZeus on Thursday June 08, 2017 @02:34PM
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In my mind, you're free to think whatever you want, no one should ever be punished for thought-crime. If you go your whole life thinking Jews are the scum of the Earth that's your business, as long as you keep it in your own head. If you speak those opinions and lose a job, well, that's the consequences to those beliefs. If you act on those beliefs and kill people, then you'll be tried and convicted of murder.
Beliefs, no matter how stupid and shitty, are not a crime.
Re:Women Engineers on the Rampant Sexism of Silicon Valley
by Freestyler_3 on Friday June 09, 2017 @11:04AM
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This is what I agree with. And thought crime is exactly what the article is insinuating.
I don't see the world as good, I see it as a collection of billions of people who all see things slightly differently which is why I don't attempt to seek truth in a viewpoint. There is truth in facts, truth in science, truth in that which is measurable and objectively quantifiable. The rest is entirely open for interpretation by everyone, and the best way to entire you have the most complete interpretation is to get as many viewpoints from as large a variety of people as possible, which is the fundamental idea behind diversifying, for example, a marketing team. That way you don't do something stupid like use an important, high ranking member of a Native American tribe as a football mascot.