▲ | dns_snek 5 days ago | |
> You can deploy hyperbole and hypothesis to make anyone a horrifying villain. Alternatively you can deploy a dismissive attitude and subtle ridicule to make any concern sound silly, no matter how important the issue is to people for a variety of different reasons which you don't seem to be receptive to understanding. And that sort of infighting is certainly many orders of magnitude more fashionable, both on social media and in real life, than people being observant and critical of companies and governments when they find new ways of eroding our rights and freedoms a little bit more than they already have. I sympathize with ~everyone affected by any type of data leak, but I'm only human with limited time and attention. That means I can't actively engage with every single issue that plagues our world, both out of practical, as well as sanity-maintaining reasons. Implying that we're hypocrites if we don't engage with completely unrelated issues before we engage with issues that directly affect us is probably the clearest example of a bad faith argument I've read on this site in a very long time. |