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Re:E Pur Si Muove by cjbprime on Thursday December 14, 2017 @01:47PM (#15925376)

It is fine that you think the opposite and I'd be happy to keep talking about it. You're probably overestimating how much it means (to me) for me to regard someone as unethical.

I don't see how I can stop extrapolating from "action X is unethical because the expected consequences look like bad ones" to "this person who dearly wants to bring about action X is behaving unethically". I simply don't see them as being meaningfully different statements.

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Re:E Pur Si Muove by alien_at_work on Friday December 15, 2017 @04:28AM (#15930626)

First of all, it's not you specifically. On a forum it never is. When we post here we represent a certain portion of the population. And things like censorship have proven to be very dangerous so we have to be careful.

In your second paragraph you've deviated from what I'm talking about (perhaps I was responding to the wrong person? EDIT: I didn't). "Person X is behaving unethically" is perfectly fine. "This person is an unethical person because they engage in action X" is where I draw the line (asuming action X is controversial and not very clearly evil like first degree murder) because it assigns a trait to someone by which they will be judged by their peers.

EDIT: Actually no:

>people dedicating their lives to it today are unethical people.

You said that. So your revised statement is moving the goal posts.

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