Children as young as 9 locked up by Indian Police for speech violation

Re:Children as young as 9 locked up by Indian Police for spe... by JoshTriplett on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @05:15PM (#22241634)

The lovely thing is that there's no symmetry required here. Excluding someone because they're intolerant/obnoxious/etc is very different than excluding someone because of who they are. It's perfectly consistent to consider it morally wrong to exclude someone because of who they are, and simultaneously consider it not wrong to exclude someone because of their prejudice. Those exclusions are not equivalent, and do not need to be treated as such.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

If you are looking to argue against that, feel free to do it with someone else.

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Re:Children as young as 9 locked up by Indian Police for spe... by dang on Friday February 07, 2020 @04:00AM (#22264290)

Bringing up someone's employer in the middle of a flamewar is a really bad idea. Maybe you just sincerely became more interested in whether ME will be open-sourced, but a general reader (let alone the person you've just been in a flamewar with) could easily read this in a much nastier way; so please don't go there.

Also, please don't do this sort of flamewar on HN to begin with. It's tedious, predictable, and nasty. We're trying for a quite different sort of forum here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

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Re:Children as young as 9 locked up by Indian Police for spe... by dependenttypes on Friday February 07, 2020 @05:35AM (#22264751)

> Bringing up someone's employer in the middle of a flamewar is a really bad idea

Guess I should have sent an email instead. In general I expect my posts to be understood as they are.

> Also, please don't do this sort of flamewar on HN to begin with

If you told me what exactly I said in the post that I should try to avoid from now I would appreciate it. I did not post anything with the intention of being flamewar-y, rather my posts were just sincere questions.

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