Re:Snowden granted 1-year asylum in Russia, leaves airport
by snitko on Thursday August 01, 2013 @11:58AM
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So if tomorrow the herd decided it is acceptable to send you to uranium mines to work for free for the rest of your life because it is better for the society, you'd have no objections to it? And, mind you, it is exactly what the herd had been doing for thousands of years, staying willfully ignorant of the horrors of slavery, religious wars and inquisition.
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Re:Snowden granted 1-year asylum in Russia, leaves airport
by nknighthb on Thursday August 01, 2013 @12:08PM
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You are confusing acceptance of the need for laws and their enforcement with belief that law is infallible. This intense inability to deal with nuance is both a cause of Randroid philosophy, and one of its most aggravating characteristics.
Re:Snowden granted 1-year asylum in Russia, leaves airport
by mpyne on Thursday August 01, 2013 @12:58PM
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> This intense inability to deal with nuance is both a cause of Randroid philosophy, and one of its most aggravating characteristics.
And this is, I believe, why it's so comparatively common with computeristas; it is a worldview which is much more logical and binary than the current one, with the implication that such a worldview is obviously better. No nuance is necessary but there are no nuances to perceive in this system.
This is, of course, why the system is not suitable for general implementation. It will be quickly and immediately co-opted by those who can perceive nuance where others see only black/white, who will eventually bring the whole edifice crashing back down again.