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Then you become the kind of person who fakes things?
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Meta's censorship policies reflect the ideology of their owner. They have loosened hate speech restrictions in some areas to curry favour with Trump but declared that Zionism is a protected category while they have banned a ton of Palestinian voices: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/02/meta-new-poli... https://amnesty.ca/human-rights-news/metas-zionism-zionist-h... https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/12/21/met…
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Meta's censorship policies reflect the ideology of their owner. They have loosened hate speech restrictions in some areas to curry favour with Trump but declared that Zionism is a protected category while they have banned a ton of Palestinian voices: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/02/meta-new-poli... https://amnesty.ca/human-rights-news/metas-zionism-zionist-h... https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/12/21/met…
That’s crazy because the most explicit antisemitism I see now days is on Facebook. And I mean real antisemitism.
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I have no position on the OP, but this comment has more shame than content. The couple fig leaves of quibbling over dubiously relevant points doesn't really clarify whether the OP's point is incorrect. I have no reason to take your opinion as more authoritative than the OP's when you don't even really engage with what the OP says. *edited for nuance
Here are the article's main points, as I see them: 1. The "modern American self" is best defined by (the tension between) Franklin and Rousseau. 2. Rousseau believes X and Franklin believes Y. 3. "Modern America" (society? politics? government?) flip flops between these two, though they are "almost entirely incompatible". 4. The author claims one of them scales, and says he likes it. I engage directly with claims 2 a…
1. If someone thinks the human self is essentially good and society makes it bad, they could still be concerned with how people can behave well in society. So the fact that Rousseau wrote about that in The Social Contract doesn't seem to contradict OP.
2. If it's possible to unite intent and action in a model of a good person, there could still be philosophies that are incompatible by virtue of how they overemphasize one or the other. So again, I don't see how this contradicts the OP.
I agree that the OP is probably full of hot air, but it's a common gloss on Rousseau I think. And definitely supported by the Discourse on Inequality, which says that people have good animal instincts, but their natural expression of these is inhibited by social constructs like language-based reasoning and property.
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Meta's censorship policies reflect the ideology of their owner. They have loosened hate speech restrictions in some areas to curry favour with Trump but declared that Zionism is a protected category while they have banned a ton of Palestinian voices: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/02/meta-new-poli... https://amnesty.ca/human-rights-news/metas-zionism-zionist-h... https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/12/21/met…
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The most charitable thing I can offer here is: Alice is a horrible sociopathic monster that fakes being good because of the social utility it provides. Bob is authentically, genuinely a "good" person (however you define it). If the two are indistinguishable from an outsider's perspective, and arrived at a similar level of social status and "success" (intentionally vaguely defined), the path they got there may not mat…
You are changed by the intention behind your decisions. Someone who continually chooses to do things out of greed turns into a greedier person. Someone who continually chooses compassion becomes a more compassionate person. Even if the external outcome is the same, the direction towards which the person evolves is vastly different. And when lifted out of a narrow thought experiment, in real life, who you are does det…
It could also be that doing good things for selfish reasons creates habits of doing good things, and after a while that is who you are and what you do.
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This is a fair response. I googled "bosworth + terrorists will kill people" before I posted this to make sure I got the wording right but purposely didn't link to what I found because it's mostly clickbait stuff and anyways the real source is that I was an employee at facebook when he wrote "The Ugly". Never good to be posting in anger but I truly can't stand this guy and I can't help but throw in something snide whe…
I asked because I didn't know who he was (didn't read his about page until after) but his blog had a search prompt and I couldn't find anything related. Didn't mean my question as criticism but advice. I've been in situations where I had to convince somebody well-liked by the majority was actually abusive to a selected minority. And it's really hard. People are not willing to expend effort in order to search for argu…