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Re:Saudi Money Fuels the Tech Industry. It’s Time to Ask Why by PhasmaFelis on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @03:53AM (#15641875)
"The least of several evils" is not the same thing as "good".
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Re:Saudi Money Fuels the Tech Industry. It’s Time to Ask Why by jamesrcole on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @06:02AM (#15642406)
But what if it's the least evil of all the available options? That doesn't itself make it "good" but that does make it the best option available.
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Re:Saudi Money Fuels the Tech Industry. It’s Time to Ask Why by coliveira on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @11:38AM (#15644833)
Contrary to popular belief, economy is not a binary system. There is a huge range of decisions that can be pursued and each decision has a particular interest. Modern societies have decided to take the "market-friendly" decisions each step of the way instead of the human- and environment-friendly decisions with the excuse that this is the least of "two" evils.
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Re:Saudi Money Fuels the Tech Industry. It’s Time to Ask Why by PhasmaFelis on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @08:05PM (#15649213)
Of course. PeachPlum was asserting that it does make it good, though.
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Re:Saudi Money Fuels the Tech Industry. It’s Time to Ask Why by jamesrcole on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @08:42AM (#15652257)
What I was trying to get at is that if something is literally the best option available then there's not much point complaining about it.
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