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Re:Canada has arrested Huawei’s global chief financial offic... by akvadrako on Thursday December 06, 2018 @05:10AM (#18616733)
How is a commenter's potential conflict of interest not relevant?
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Re:Canada has arrested Huawei’s global chief financial offic... by simias on Thursday December 06, 2018 @07:07AM (#18617290)
A conflict of interest would mean that they have an undisclosed interest in pushing that narrative (say, that they have stock in Huawei, that they're a Chinese official or something like that). The parent comment discloses no such thing. Having an opinion is not a conflict of interest.

At worse you could argue that the poster is biased, but then in this types of geopolitical discussions who isn't? Certainly not me.

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Re:Canada has arrested Huawei’s global chief financial offic... by fitpolar on Thursday December 06, 2018 @06:44AM (#18617168)
Everyone technically has a conflict of interest or premeditated motivation. An argument should stand on its own merit, regardless of who makes it. Analyzing anything other than the argument is immature.
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Re:Canada has arrested Huawei’s global chief financial offic... by EliRivers on Thursday December 06, 2018 @07:25AM (#18617380)
Analyzing anything other than the argument is immature.

Yet sometimes it leads to a better outcome than just analysis of the argument alone. Context is real. Context matters. Automatically disregarding real information on the grounds of "maturity" ideology can lead to a worse outcome, so it doesn't seem like the best course.

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Re:Canada has arrested Huawei’s global chief financial offic... by fitpolar on Thursday December 20, 2018 @05:23AM (#18723767)
While context is important, I’ve found that the context of who someone is personally is rarely beneficial when being objective. If anything, this approach is anti-ideology, as you are not taking ideological bias into account...and there’s way too much ideological bias in discussions these days. I think that’s what I meant by maturity.
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Re:Canada has arrested Huawei’s global chief financial offic... by ghusbands on Thursday December 06, 2018 @06:50AM (#18617200)
Calling someone's argument or stance immature is immature.
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Re:Canada has arrested Huawei’s global chief financial offic... by fitpolar on Thursday December 20, 2018 @05:25AM (#18723782)
With that mindset nobody should use that word. We should wipe it from the dictionary.
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Re:Canada has arrested Huawei’s global chief financial offic... by AsyncAwait on Thursday December 06, 2018 @06:28AM (#18617096)
Subtract the OP's posting history. Is what they wrote still relevant and valid? Yes? There's your answer.
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Re:Canada has arrested Huawei’s global chief financial offic... by stef25 on Thursday December 06, 2018 @07:05AM (#18617281)
It's not because there may be a conflict of interest that he's wrong. He's mainly just explaining the legal background of this event.
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