Re:On the removal of Come Back Alive
by PaulHoule on Friday February 25, 2022 @10:14AM
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More generally there are conflicts such as that in Northern Ireland where from my point of view there is not a wrong or a right side but if people were fundraising for either the IRA or Unionist fighters that would be a bad thing.
I remember a controversy on a now-defunct crowdfounding platform that was intended to support open source software where one of the top recipients was someone who was raising money for a divorce lawsuit.
On one hand I can understand that somebody might not do that but from working at a mediation center that did a lot of parenting plans I learned to be very skeptical of what anybody says about a divorce. That is, frequently both partners are going to tell a story that is full of half-truths. People in a situation like that can go to a mediation and often make decisions they are happy with in the long term, but if you try to put together a consistent story of what happened you usually can't. Some people might be inclined to believe the person they are closer to, or some people might tend to sympathize with a man or with a women (though it might be two of the same these days), but I learned not to even try to make a model of "what happened" because its inevitably going to be distorted.
Some people might see a relationship between the personal and political and believe they are supporting some wider cause by crowdfunding a divorce but I don't feel entirely comfortable with people crowdfunding personal antagonisms any more than I am with people crowdfunding armed conflicts.
I remember a controversy on a now-defunct crowdfounding platform that was intended to support open source software where one of the top recipients was someone who was raising money for a divorce lawsuit.
On one hand I can understand that somebody might not do that but from working at a mediation center that did a lot of parenting plans I learned to be very skeptical of what anybody says about a divorce. That is, frequently both partners are going to tell a story that is full of half-truths. People in a situation like that can go to a mediation and often make decisions they are happy with in the long term, but if you try to put together a consistent story of what happened you usually can't. Some people might be inclined to believe the person they are closer to, or some people might tend to sympathize with a man or with a women (though it might be two of the same these days), but I learned not to even try to make a model of "what happened" because its inevitably going to be distorted.
Some people might see a relationship between the personal and political and believe they are supporting some wider cause by crowdfunding a divorce but I don't feel entirely comfortable with people crowdfunding personal antagonisms any more than I am with people crowdfunding armed conflicts.