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Re:The EU Terrorist Content Regulation – a threat to the eco... by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @07:34AM (#18502184)
> needs to be stopped with every means possible

Nothing needs to be done by every means possible. This isn’t worth vaporising cities over, for one example. Or fascism, for another.

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Re:The EU Terrorist Content Regulation – a threat to the eco... by starbeast on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @07:50AM (#18502265)
When people start thinking that the ends justify the means, they forget that outside of maybe death, and people still argue about that, ends are just narrative conveniences and there is only means. And you can't very well have means justifying means, can you?
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Re:The EU Terrorist Content Regulation – a threat to the eco... by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @08:35AM (#18502528)
> you can't very well have means justifying means

Yes you can. They’re called instrumental values and goals.

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Re:The EU Terrorist Content Regulation – a threat to the eco... by Nasrudith on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @08:12AM (#18502385)
Things like this are clear steps on a road. Article 13 was the camel nose through the tent. One could call it drastic at the time but shooting every loser involved in the Beer Hall Putsch for treason would have saved the world a lot of trouble. A lot of them were purged anyway.
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Re:The EU Terrorist Content Regulation – a threat to the eco... by Vinnl on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @08:45AM (#18502584)
Sure, but "every means possible" is a very clear shortcut directly to the end of that road.
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