Re:GitHub Has Become a Haven for China's Censored Internet U...
by mmastrac on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @01:40PM
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I'm more that comfortable with my stance. You're invoking the slippery slope.
Re:GitHub Has Become a Haven for China's Censored Internet U...
by BoorishBears on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @04:00PM
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That's not "the slippery slope", it's a valid point.
Yeesh not everything has to be a fallacy, and honestly if even if it had been he still had a point, a fallacy doesn't magically invalidate the argument being made.
If you ask most christians (or minorities) in Syria what they think of Bashar´s leadership, they´d hail him as their christ and savior. Meanwhile, for us here in the west he´s a dictator and a murderer.
I am not justifying any actions or atrocities committed by such an actor. I am merely point to the fact that if you want to politicize an aspect of our lives, you need to at least have rigid and firm definitions. Otherwise, all you end up doing is giving ammunition to your opposition to do the same. Ex. I can add the same about Trump now into my repos and call him a fascist, or do the same thing when Obama was in office. Or heck, imagine having "LOCK HER UP" at the top of each ReadMe.
That cannot possibly be a healthy way of going about things.