While it's relevant to the particular submission, this type of comment is thrown around way too often.

Me boycotting some company's product due to bad practices (slavery, etc).

Response: You know your boycotting isn't going to change anything, right?

Me: Yes, and ....? I'm not trying to change the world.

I don't use FF as some form of protest. It's just a browser I like more.

I'm not anti-AI the way much of HN is, but let's pretend I am. If I ban AI generated content on my site[1], I'm not trying to change the world. Just controlling my site.

Getting more to your sentiment: The world/Internet is a vast place. If even 1000 people think like me, it's more than enough. For a number of years I had valuable online interactions via BBS's with a population < 1000. As long as I get 1000 people, let the rest of the world burn!

It's like the constant "Emacs is dying" threads we used to have on HN, because the percentage of SO users using it kept dropping. When in reality, the absolute numbers kept increasing. Who cares if the world has moved on to VS Code? Emacs as an ecosystem was/is thriving!

[1] Assuming I live in a fantasy world where I can classify content accurately...

I think much of current day neuroticism can be attributed to insincere comparisons of genuinely normal trade offs (like AI) to slavery in the past.

I think people are so afraid to do a hecking racism that they start comparing any normal thing to racism. I also think there’s an incentive here: by comparing to racism they potentially gain some social status points like - I’m more morally superior to you because I didn’t do a hecking racism like you.

But it can backfire, like with your comment. People are catching up to how ridiculous this comparison is