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Re:Longer Discussions in HN? by Negitivefrags on Sunday February 05, 2023 @01:06PM (#34667138)
One really has to wonder about the mindset of people who would enforce such a rule.

Do they really think they are a force for positive change?

Isn’t every other fictional story some parable about how the means don’t justify the ends? It feels weird to me that people don’t absorb that idea at some point.

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Re:Longer Discussions in HN? by Idk__Throwaway on Sunday February 05, 2023 @01:32PM (#34667406)
I believe they feel that their ideology is the ultimate force for positive change, and they become so lost in it that they are willing to do objectively wrong things under the rationalization that they're nuetralizing a threat to the idealogy.

Again, that's just what I think makes sense and personally believe. It's certainly possible I'm incorrect.

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