Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns
by atypicaluser on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @11:33AM
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What could it be other than punishment? RMS committed no crime. What he did was offend certain people by having the audacity to speak up on behalf of his dead friend. That was his 'act.' Inconvenient enough?
That's a position with enormous rhetorical value to you. You can use that framing to turn a conversation about a man's actions over time into a philosophical question.
That way you can avoid any inconvenient particular facts.