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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

I’m not trying to win any argument, I’m trying to have a discussion. It seems to me that you’re not interested in that, so I’ll leave some links to relevant logical fallacies in a hope that someone going this far down the thread will make up their own mind using reason instead of emotion.

The link in the post above me is also great, I highly recommend reading it, especially the following from the person who wrote about it:

Popper underlines the importance of rational argument, drawing attention to the fact that many intolerant philosophies reject rational argument and thus prevent calls for tolerance from being received on equal terms.

To be clear, I am not arguing that Eich’s intolerant beliefs be tolerated, I’m arguing that they’re irrelevant to the discussion about Brave browser (i.e. the Association Fallacy). By all means, protest against intolerance, be loud, and above all, completely discredit it through rational argument, and I’ll join you in that. But don’t become the thing you claim to hate by refusing rational argument. Articulate why his personal actions matter at all to the products his company makes, and why those can’t be evaluated on their own merits.

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