Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever

• LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    the ends don’t justify the means.

    Hitler experimented on hundreds of thousands of Jews and the medical world benefited from it greatly.

    does that mean you’re going to nuance the Nazi regime because they “did some good”?

    no amount of good is worth the ounce of evil used to make it.

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    • Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I hate billionaires as much as the next gal, but I think comparing Bill Gates to Hitler is a bit extreme

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      • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Welcome to Lemmy, heh.

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      • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I didn’t compare them, but in your mind you understood it that way.

        I used Hitler as an example, an extreme one, but still an example of “the ends justify the means”.

        could have use any number of examples, but I went with one I thought everyone could relate to. clearly I miscalculated the selfishness of modern day philosophies.

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    • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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      • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        He is not a good person. But the foundation has done some good work.

        seems like a justification to me dude. you’re literally justifying his indiscretions, that you even call out, by saying the charity he heads “has done some good work”.

        And I sure as hell don’t white wash Bill Gates. You don’t get to that level of wealth and dominance without cracking skulls and ruining lives every step of the way.

        I don’t know if you’re actually being misleading or confusing by accident but calling attention to it being “nuanced” is a clear indicator that your argument supports that the “ends justify the means”.

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Every dictator did “some good work”, are you thinking they are good people?

    IMO your moral compass need maintenance.

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    • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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      • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I don’t think you realise the bad things he did (and still does, like patenting everything he ‘funds’ in research) versus the “some good” things coming out of it, that’s about it I think. That’s why your comments make me feel like you excuse an execrable people "just because ‘some good’ came out of it.

        BTW I had to scroll throug the whole original post, Connect (the lemmy soft) lost your answers, so if you answer to this I might not be able to respond.

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  • FauxPseudo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It capitalized Wash because spell checker is the leaf on the wind.

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• Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Lol no. Of all the sleazy and greasy millionaires, Gates is one of the few whose actions speaks for themselves. Dude has been doing noble causes for most of my life.

  I’m all for talking shit about the rich, but it better be true.

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    His pr firm really works well.

    Check out when elon ditched his pr firm. He went frm that loved lil crazy fun type to what he really is.

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    • Honytawk@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sure, and where is your proof that Bill needs one, let alone uses one?

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      • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Let me google that for you.

        It’s like asking for proof there is sand in the desert

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